18 months later: 61.0mpg

[geeky teacher]

I'm jealous. My Chi-town area car is only getting 50mpg. See you at hybridfest a priori! Maybe I'll take a few hypermiling lessons while I'm there.

[catgic]

Originally Posted by ystasino

This is my best tank (06/24 to 07/12) yet including about 80 miles on I95 at 62mph the rest are local 5-8 mile routes. No canview or scangauge were used.

Originally Posted by ystasino

City Driving: I live in Baltimore, the commute to work and back is 8 miles and most routes are about the same distance. The terrain to work is friendly (82 mpg) but the trip back is problematic because of higher traffic and uphill driving (45 mpg). I have only slightly modified my route but I regularly come across about 8 red lights each way in my commute. I definitely look hard for the "no arrows" condition and aggressively try to push the engine to its final state by hitting the brake-and-gas pedals simultaneously to force the engine on and off about 3 times per trip. Recently, I recognized that the battery is drained very quickly if you try to accelerate even a tiny bit during startup, so I wait the initial phase out. I try to come to hard stops early on to force the engine off. I try to maintain the battery status to 6 bars and not overuse. I don't use A/C or heating unless the temperature is above 95 or below 30 F. Finally when accelerating, I aim so that my mph is approximately 1.5-1.9 times my mpg. In 17 months I have save about $144/month from my V6 Camry and that's excluding maintenance and with gas at $3.50.

Highway Driving: I use cruise control and set the A/C to 80F and the heating to 68F. I consider it somewhat unsafe and distracting to use fuel-saving techniques on the highway, because I live in the I95 corridor and it is really crowded here. I generally drive at 64mph on the highway.

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ystasino --- Congrats on your 61.0 MPG Per-Tank-Full driving in your Baltimore, MD environs. I am running 63.8 MPG over the 12-months of Multiple-Tank-Fulls since my PriusChat join date.

I am an OEM “Purest” running a “Stock” Prius without benefit of any add-on ScanGauge, CANView or tachometer instrumentation to help me achieve and maintain "stellar" MPG numbers. With E10 “Moonshine” use now mandated in my area of Florida two months back and summertime A/C use, I am Hyper-Humpin’ Hard to keep my running MPG-FE average for 2008 in the 60s.

[a priori]

Originally Posted by geeky teacher

I'm jealous. My Chi-town area car is only getting 50mpg. See you at hybridfest a priori! Maybe I'll take a few hypermiling lessons while I'm there.

I'm sorry to report I am unlikely to be up there this weekend.

I was in WI this week, but I returned home this evening. I stopped by the Fair Grounds this afternoon, but I saw no live beings. It looked as though someone was setting up tables and chairs, but that's all I saw at about 3:15pm.

If my younger child is feeling better (quite sick tonight), then perhaps we'll make the trip on Saturday. Otherwise, we'll be staying at home!

Enjoy Hybridfest -- I'm certain you'll find more than one willing soul to offer actual driving lessons for MPG gain! My round trip gave me MPGs in the low 60s, but this happened only because I had very little time at high speeds. Most of my driving was at 50 to 65.

[donee]

Hi Geeky,

Alot depends on your route. My route is about 23 miles. The first 5 minuts I get 25 mpg. The second 5 minutes over 100 (lots of downhill gliding). And then its onto the highway. The first 5 highway minutes are 45 mpg as its uphill, and the car is getting the battery up to highway mode state of charge. The next 15 minutes are at 70 mpg at 53 mph in super highway mode, and/or gliding into the slow spots. After that, there is another few miles of pulse and glide on a secondary road then 1 mile of gliding in the industrial park. End result - 68.7 mpg this week.

[bmg21]

Congrats to ystasino, donee, and a priori for getting over 60 mpg, it truly is a wonderful feat. And if you do things correctly and efficiently, these feats can be done by all of us at priuschat.com(since we have an AWESOME COMMUNITY). I'm only at 54 mpg with my wife and I driving, but I've been up around 60mpg my last tank according to the scanguage. My wife brings my total mpg down a bit but it is far better than our impala that does about 30-35 being hypermiled (50% highway/town).

Again, grats guys. If your above 60mpg your doing it all right and keep pushing. Reduce the amount of foreign oil and emissions. Rock on

brandon