Finally, a 70+ Tank!

No freakin' way, bro! No freakin' way!

 

Nicely done, Tony! I'm working on a 60+ tank right now. 70+ will be a heck of a challenge, but a worthy goal for me!

... Brad

 

Congrats on your 70MPG !!! I am still trying to get a 60mpg tank I got 59.3 on my last tank but I cant seem to get 60mpg no matter what.. But I am more than happy with my 59mpg..

 

I look pretty silly even mentioning my 55.3 mpg tank! sigh! I'm at 42/40 now. I wonder what difference 52/50 would give me?

 

Congrats on the results of hard work and thoughtful driving, Tony.
All I can do is... :hail:

ZC1

 

I've found both of these things to be true.

The good numbers appear when I forget to stealth and when I'm not really easy on the gas.

'Course despair comes when I'm trying really hard and the numbers go lower and lower.


ZC1

 

I find this a puzzle. If I drive it only I dont use much of the pack. (unless the car does it itself like on downgrades) so if I dont try to get the engine to stop like at 40mph or less my mpg will go down!

how did his go up? I dont get it.

 

Nice work Tony! I guess now that 80 is the next stop on the journey?:bounce:

 

Well 'bout time for Priapus. Larry let's let him take some baby steps up, don't put the pressure for 80 yet.

Wayne

 

Good point. Ok Tony, how about 72 next?

 

wish we had an icon for clueless, cause that is me. personal best is 55.9 for the drive home 33 miles only. very difficult to get past the 55 number it seems.

 

I'm not sure I understand your post completely, but Tony is letting the engine turn off (gliding & coasting), he's just avoiding using the battery as much as possible.

The car won't be happy with a battery less than half full, so it may run the engine at less than ideal times (like sitting at a light), so if the battery is kept full, it recharges when the opportunity comes up, instead of forcing it.

But Tony, without a scangauge, aren't you worried about overheating the engine by blocking the grill at such warm temperatures? My scangauge showed the engine reached 180'F pretty quickly at 60'F ambient, and then I assumed it ran the fans to keep the coolant at about that temperature. With your long commute, the percent time spent under 180'F is very minimal, which is the only time blocking the grill will really help, AFAIK.

These have been ideal driving temperatures lately in Chicago area. I got 58 mpg on my last tank, mid 50's so far on this tank, and most of my trips are under 7 miles, with an occasional 12 or 20 mile trip. My tires are 39/37 (10% over recommended minimum PSI).

For those who think air temperature is a minor factor, the same kind of driving (with slightly more short trips) netted me 36 mpg during the worst stretch of winter driving. Using a 3-tank average, my worst was 40.5 mpg, last 3 tanks were 55.5 mpg => 37% improvement due to weather (call it 30%, and 7% because of more short trips, which is indirectly due to the weather since I couldn't bike for those trips).


For our metric-minded friends, 40.5 mpg = 5.8 l/100km, 55.5 mpg = 4.2l/100km, and Tony's 71 mpg = 3.3l/100km

 

Well, here's confused: and the no-idea: :noidea: but I kind of like the twitch: :twitch:, but it seems you're feeling more like this: :frusty:

All that aside, 56 mpg is very good, well above EPA estimate. Give it time, you've only had the car a few months. Living in Florida you must need the A/C a bit, so maybe your winter numbers will be better?

 

Tony, no matter how you did it, it's still a monumental achievement and you should be very proud...it gives everyone here something to shoot for, plus now, the road is clear for 75MPG!

 

TONY - you just created a further distance between the "men" and the "boys", consider myself a toddler.............................

maybe someone will really show me how to get out of the 47 mpg range. that's all i get. but i can dream...............................

 

We don't have our Prius yet, but we rented one a few months back for a road trip. One thing I did notice was that the computer display of MPG and what I figured up at fill-up were off by 10MPG. The computer was saying close to 49MPG but once I took the amount of gas to fill the tank dived by miles driven it was more like 39MPG. Now this was all highway at about 80 MPH. So is the computer correct or is better to figure your MPG the old fashion way?