Oh! What I'd Do to get a Longer Daily Commute!

[a priori]

Originally Posted by ggood

I actually went to the Prius Connection event there, and greatly enjoyed the museum and the pizza! I suspect part of my problem is running the A/C to beat back the sauna outside!

I'm certain you are taking a "hit" by running the A/C, but what options do you have? Is it worth it to you to sweat out the extra MPGs? If so, great, but if not, then why worry about it. Wait until you see my FE numbers for the winter, then you won't be jealous of anything!!

[HTMLSpinnr]

I've got a similar impressive 70.3MPG after 15.7 miles driving to work, max speed 55mph. Tires at 40/38, and about 750 miles on the car. After the return trip and another trip I'm still at 56.3mpg at ~80 miles.

[FireEngineer]

Do all you people carry cameras with you at all times?

I drove my former commute today; 18 miles one way, Chicago city strrets, 64 stop lights and 4 stop signs, 60F outside. Ended at 76.8 for that segment. And that included going up 6 levels of a double helix parking garage in BATTERY only.

Wayne

[JimN]

High numbers for short periods are nothing special. The downside is once the battery is sufficiently discharged your FE will tank as the ICE runs just to charge it. On the last leg of my commute I routinely get way over 100mpg because my battery is green & the speed limit in the parking lot is 5mpg.

[billklug]

I'm Jealous! My commute is nearly 200 mi per day (round trip, thank goodness). I have a llittle over 400 miles on this tank and am *only* getting 53MPG (a whole heck of a lot better then my 2002 Gen 1 EVER got). I made the mistake of calculating how much time I spent in my 2002; dang near 10,000 hours (that's almost 5 years of full time work!). It will be much more fun in the 2010!

[billklug]

I'm Jealous! My commute is nearly 200 mi per day (round trip, thank goodness). I have a llittle over 400 miles on this tank and am *only* getting 53MPG (a whole heck of a lot better then my 2002 Gen 1 EVER got). I made the mistake of calculating how much time I spent in my 2002; dang near 10,000 hours (that's almost 5 years of full time work!). It will be much more fun in the 2010!

[billklug]

I'm Jealous! My commute is nearly 200 mi per day (round trip, thank goodness). I have a llittle over 400 miles on this tank and am *only* getting 53MPG (a whole heck of a lot better then my 2002 Gen 1 EVER got). I made the mistake of calculating how much time I spent in my 2002; dang near 10,000 hours (that's almost 5 years of full time work!). It will be much more fun in the 2010!

[a priori]

Originally Posted by HTMLSpinnr

I've got a similar impressive 70.3MPG after 15.7 miles driving to work, max speed 55mph. Tires at 40/38, and about 750 miles on the car. After the return trip and another trip I'm still at 56.3mpg at ~80 miles.

Gotta love it! I'm not quite broken it yet, so I don't really know what to expect. At 2,400 miles, I'm starting to get there. I'm expecting to get slightly better until oil change/tire rotation at 5,000, then a drop until I'm back up to about 7,000. By this fall, I'm hoping to see a couple of 60 MPG tanks!

Originally Posted by FireEngineer

Do all you people carry cameras with you at all times?

Who doesn't?

Originally Posted by FireEngineer

I drove my former commute today; 18 miles one way, Chicago city strrets, 64 stop lights and 4 stop signs, 60F outside. Ended at 76.8 for that segment. And that included going up 6 levels of a double helix parking garage in BATTERY only.

Show off!

Originally Posted by JimN

High numbers for short periods are nothing special. The downside is once the battery is sufficiently discharged your FE will tank as the ICE runs just to charge it. On the last leg of my commute I routinely get way over 100mpg because my battery is green & the speed limit in the parking lot is 5mpg.

The whole point of my post, Jim, was that the trip I took could easily have been my commute. It wasn't a complete round trip, but it was close enough. If I counted the early part, the number may have been (probably would have been) even higher. My SOC start and stop was pretty much the same -- I didn't start with 8 bars and stop with 2 -- so I think this is a repeatable number. It won't be for me, because I drive only a quarter of the way to get to work!

[billklug]

Shoot. My computer must be a mess. Had no intention of posting this THREE times. Jeesh!! So Sorry. If I could figure out how to delete, I would.

[a priori]

Originally Posted by billklug

Shoot. My computer must be a mess. Had no intention of posting this THREE times. Jeesh!!

And I though you were just triply jealous!