Month of October 2021

Today , 62 deg F in Naperville , 61 in Elk Grove.
Wind NNW1.
35.0 miles , fcd = 66.6 x .943 = 62.8 MPG.
Scenic route # 3 home tonight. It's shorter AND faster. and I can still
get a true 70+ MPG. Win/win/win. And no toll , either. Sorry , Land of Lincoln !

 

Isn't that just crazy goodness happening? A tenth of a gallon equivalent to make your 20 mile commute.

 

And your Audi ( and my Prius ) are thirsty buggers.

 

So are heavy electric vehicles when powered by energy generated by burning fossil fuel.

 

Ouch. True.

 

I moved 4 years ago, but I used to head down Rohlwing. Went to look at a Prius at the dealer there.

 

I take Rohlwing home every day.
All the way from Biesterfield to Warrenville Rd. , then west.
Yeah , it takes a little while , but higher MPG.
In the AM , it's 88 and 355.

 

Today 70 deg F in Northbrook , 71 in Elk Grove.Weather.com says wind is
11 MPH from the south , which would be a headwind , but I didn't feel that
and the results were not bad : 17.2 miles , fcd = 69.6 x .943 = 65.6 MPG.

 

Seems like lots has happened between my fillups.
Since filling up on 9/11 in Memphis while picking up a few things at IKEA. We made a family trip to NW Arkansas for a family members birthday party in the Ioniq.
595.7 miles on the tank
10.512 gals to fill up
56.7 MPG actual (58.6 MPG on the FCD) - 1.76 G/100miles
10.20 hrs on the tank
95% of this tank was highway miles near or at the speed limit with 3-4 riders and AC on.
Low Fuel alert at 39 miles (30 miles left at fillup +1 mile after the starting the car up earlier in the day)
5 pips on the SOC
1 pip on the fuel gauge.

Not as great as pure EV's, but for the 18 months I have had it, it still only has 3986 miles on the odo. :0)

Stay safe out there guys.

 

Looking good, Jason. That Ioniq sounds like a great highway cruiser.

 

No problem , Gord. I was lazy and didn't ride my bikes AT ALL this weekend. I have no excuse.

 

...and I have nothing but!

 

In reply to Edwin posting that fossil-fuel cars are thirsty buggers, RedylC94 said:

& now that manufacturers are producing EVs aimed at the mad racers in various societies, the mad racers will be able to cause the electrical grid to fail, much sooner than predicted……as well as all the people who want to Hyper-charge at 250, 350, 450, etc. kWs on the new 900Volt chargers.
Case in point! The new Ford Mach-e, GT is over 5000 pounds, has 450+ HP AND 633LBS-FT of Torque. Sofyan Bey at Redline & a U-Tuber, took the GT for a wild spin AND ALSO, on quick 4 laps of an agility course, set up in a parking lot. Only as an aside to his enthusiasm for his 2 minutes (less?) on the course, he said he burned off 5% of the Mach-e GT’s battery pack, which was maybe 5+kW-hrs of electricity. Yeah, punk-racers will burn 1home’s 20%-daily(+?) consumption of electricity in less than 2 minutes. With all the advertising now in plentiful quantity of U-Tube videos, tens of thousands (more?) of hormone raging teens will burn electrical grids down across the world(at least in the US)……..as well as destroy battery packs.
Electrical grids around the World better get laws on the books in a hurry. Not sure what they’ll be able to do against 16 year-old kids, tho. But, there are thousands of 20 to 60 year old racer-punks, too.
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PS……Comparing: Electricity charged into each race car in a 1 hour professional Formula E, EV racing event, is 52kW-hrs of energy. For the event, there are 18 cars, the total energy nearly 1 Mega-Watt-hour.
Yeah, it can be seen that for any 30 kids, squirreling around for the day in EVs, 1 Mega-watt-hour of energy (& more) will say “bye-bye”!!

PS 1……Yeah, again. People were first delirious with a few Watts to power electric lights. Then, they got used to electrical equipment of kilo-Watt levels. Now a day’s EV event will involve the disappearance of Mega-Watt-hrs of energy.

 

Today , 61 deg F in Naperville , 62 in Elk Grove. Wet roads.
Wind = SW12. New alternate express route involves taking US Rte 34 thru Aurora and Naperville
, then getting on I-88 at Naperville Rd. Instead of 35.0 miles , it's 32.3 miles.
Fcd = 66.6 x .943 = 62.8 MPG.

Last pip started flashing at 624 miles. I will be filling up this afternoon in Itasca ,
which is in DuPage County ( lower taxes on fuel ).

 

I know that strategy!
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PS…..That is why I’m so excited about EVs & the possibilities of FREE charging, even if it’s in another town! Will save even more than gas tax reductions.

 

I will be at zero miles remaining when I get to my Exxon in Itasca. Plenty of fuel left.
At this point it only accepts around 10.0 gallons. Supposedly the tank is 11.9 gallons.