What is your other vehicle and how do you use it to maximize gallons of gas avoided?

2012 PiP and a 2008 Prius with a temperature hack, block heater and a BMS+ PHEV conversion from Hybrid Interfaces.

 

I think you will find many also have other non-hybrid vehicles for a full spread.

If I drive my DMC in the city, I will get 8mpg to 12mpg. But it is fun. 31years old and 28K miles on the DMC instead of 6 years old and 105K miles on the Prius. At 12mpg and 50mpg, the Prius has used almost as much gas as the DMC12...

 

My other car is a C6 Corvette. If I'm just piddling around going from point A to Point B, I usually short shift (less than 2k rpm shift point) and frequently skip gears i.e. 1-3-5-6. I can get 30 mpg on a long highway run at legal to slightly above legal speeds. It still gets over 20 mpg with some mildly spirited twisty road driving but dropped to about 10 mpg when I did a track day.

 

My wife has a company car, so our challenge is always to decide between 16 MPG that her employer pays for, or 41 MPG that I pay for.

 

I have a 4Runner, it gets its best MPG's when parked!
I only use it when I have dirty jobs to do, pickup full sheets plywood, drywall!

 

We have a Honda Pilot which we use when we need the cargo carrying capability, like when our college son moved to a new apartment. Or when towing our small RV on vacations. The problem is actually having to remember to take it out occasionally to keep the battery charged and the engine lubricated. Our "second car" is a 2002 Prius which my wife uses when I have the PiP.

 

My other vehicle is a Cannondale road bike. The bike only gets about 25 mpopb (miles per Odwalla Protein Bar), so I usually drive the plug-in, which is thus far averaging a bit over 200 mpg.

 

Toyota RAV4 with the V6 (little rocket!). Up to 28mpg if I push it, and since I bought the Prius, I started driving it more carefully now that I understand where gas consumption sky rockets, etc. I'm definitely sold on EVs now, but since the electric RAV4 is CA only, and $$$, not sure what I will do next.

 

No PiP here, but (see sig) I have an '04 with a PIS 4kwh PHEV kit. The wife drives an '05 Prius--no mods. Unfortunately, Fuelly doesn't count tanks with >200 mpg ratings.

My first tank on the PHEV conversion gave me 134 mpg over 1037 miles driven.
Second tank got 234 mpg over 2084 miles driven. Main difference between the two tanks is daily commute done in OOG mode. The colder weather is playing havoc with the pack and I'm doing just 189 mpg over 693 miles so far.

 

plugable hit this sitter before I could. But I'll invert his cost: I commute about 4000 miles a year on a bike, and eat anything I want.
Our Subaru Outback gets driven about once every two weeks, and honestly feels downright primitive. We will be using it more during ski season however, and usually get around 26-27mpg chugging up and down the mountains.
My 1971 TR6 is driven about once a week, and was downright primitive when it was made. Driving it reasonably gently will give me about 25mpg (but why do that?), though once I get the supercharger installed I'm guessing mpg will be significantly decreased and mirth significantly increased.
The funny is that I wanted to only have one car, and to some extent the PiP was chosen with that in mind.

 

Nice results from the PHEV kit. How long have you had it?
Curious.. are your Fuelly results in a separate catagory or is the 59 the long term average ignoring your more recent tanks.


On the Thread.. my wife's car is a outback, we get about 27-28 mpg using it mostly for hauling stuff and ski-season. She has shifted most of her shopping to when she can take my volt.. then she can visit 2-3 stores and not worry about the gas needed to save. With our long trip a PHEV was better for me than a BEV.. since the airport/boulder runs are in my volt at 38-39MPG.
if I had a leaf I would have used 27 more gallons of gas .

I did consider getting a prius + PHEV kit.. but the volt was a better mach for me as my daily commute is 33-40 miles. and I do it on all EV (and buy renewable energy).

 

I bought the '04 in April 2009 and the stats begin there. In August 2009, I added an Enginer 2kwh PHEV kit, that was more a toy/hobby than being useful. I believe I got about 6-8 mpg improvement using it.

In March this year (2012), the Enginer charger died for the second time and I was unwilling to throw another $100 at it to replace it. In early April I ordered the PIS 4kwh kit. It went into service on July 8th with the first full tank starting as of July 9th through August 7. The second tank completed on September 7th. Between those two tanks, I drove 3121 miles and used 16.6 gallons of gas.

Fuelly is correctly showing my total cumulative mpg, but refuses to 'post' my >200 mpg tank as a high tank. At the end of that second tank, I had put 49567 miles on the vehicle since I bought it. So the 3121 miles with the PHEV didn't move the cumulative average by much...actually less than 2 mpg. It will move higher eventually.