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I took a similar highway trip this week for work, 180 miles round trip, did 68 mph on eco cruise there and got 43.5 average, did 65mph back and got 47.0 on the nose. almost 6600 miles on my car now. my wife has been driving my car a lot more and she drives like an idiot and average 42 mpg. I can still get 55mpg+ on my 12-mile drive to work. got 62mpg last night. her and my driving has been averaging out to 46-47 on the tank

This is old, but I figured I'd post since I did it once. Haven't been trying so hard recently, been down around 500 miles per tank.

Also I've been driving faster lately. After driving 400 miles in a 5.0 pickup last week, I've been pretty okay with 45-50 mpg instead of 55+.

Yeah but if you ever leave your key on when you're not in the car this time counts when you're not even driving . I leave my key on when I drop off and pick up my daughter so I still have one trip total when I get to work. Or like today when I was in Walmart for 20 minutes with my wife in the car.

lol the 1000.0 happened to come when I was on a uphill 'Y' in the highway and I was trying to take a picture while staying to the right. And if I couldve driven 45 everywhere that average would be 55, not 50.0.

Here it is! Not as good as I hoped due to interstate driving.

Rev, you're not answering anyone's questions so it's no wonder you're not finding any responses helpful. If you have a trip meter or a display mode's AVG MPG sitting at 39.9 no matter how you drive, you need to reset it. The miles you've driven, EV or not, since the meter was reset will affect how much your driving affects that number. I have a trip computer that has just about 1000 miles on it since it was reset and it sits at 49.9 my whole drive home from work (25 minutes). Whatever AVG you're looking at, hold the OK button on the steering wheel until it resets and then it will give you a more accurate count. When you said you were driving 20 minutes on EV that was very confusing as most people can not stay in EV for more than a minute or two at a time without the ICE running. If you are using EV and coasting to recharge, that's a different story, but even then, 20 minutes is fairly unbelievable unless you're traveling downhill. Similarly, my car's Lifetime Average Fuel Use is at 45.0 MPG after almost 4,000 miles. I will have to drive for probably two hours for that number to budge even 0.1 MPG. It probably goes up 0.1 every 4-5 days.

Okay, here's my route to school I don't drive anymore because I just graduated. I figured it was like this though.. Here's what I drive to work. Pretty even.. Here's what I drove on the interstate the other day..

I can't figure out how to get a chart of the elevation like you did....

Here's an elevation map of southern Illinois. The cooler colors are the lower elevations. Looking at the map, one would think I'd get better mileage driving south, but that wasn't the case. Like I said, there was a SSW 5 mph wind, but I don't know if it had that much of an effect. I didn't feel any wind resistance heading down. I guess the biggest factor was driving 65mph instead of 70mph.

I've done better overall cycling the EV but I wouldn't do it at speeds of 60mph or more. I will always EV/Charge at 55mph or below though. Above that, I'll set cruise. It's worked out pretty well so far...

I really just posted this because it seems there's a lot of people asking about mileage at 70-80 mph ("real world") and the car can do well at least at 70mph, even better at 65. Driving style does have a lot to do with it though. I dont gun it passed people on the interstate. At 70mph, I'm still usually the one getting passed. Except, there was a point on the way down where I was passing a truck and another truck was roadside so I accelerated hard to get out of the way so he could get over and the kW gauge on the Empower display maxed out in the yellow at the top and it was loud and shaky and hit it really fast like it downshifted. Scared me.

Yes, except for the bottom 40 miles of Illinois. In a stable climate I think a break-in effect could be noticeable but because most FFH buyers are breaking in their cars from winter to spring its difficult to differentiate any improvements from temperature changes. Seems to me my work commute has mostly improved since February because the motor doesn't have to warm up as much. That said, I'm certainly seeing 580+ miles per tank, even on this tank, when I saw 400 at first. Ford definitely specifies a break in for the hybrids, which isn't really common anymore. I think the break in period is supposed to be for the batteries, not the engine internals, like a conventional break in period.

I dunno, I made this same trip south with about 400 miles on the car in the middle of February and still got 43mpg. The first picture I ever took of my trip results was 56.5 mpg on my work commute. But I was mostly driving 50-55mph on two-lane highways. I've still not driven many interstate miles. Unfortunately, I can't say I've seen much of a break-in improvement for sure.

Here it is. Love this car.