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I looked back through my trip logs today and found the following data for the city route trip to my parents' house. On Saturday I had my best ever Regen miles for a trip home from their house with 1.0 Regen miles. Without that trip the Avg Regen mi is 0.8. I consciously tried to wait longer and brake closer to the 35 kW max as often as possible. As you can see in the table above, the black FFH did consume more SOC from the battery on average, leading to higher MPG. The black FFH consumed an average of 31.64 more wH from the HVB on these trips (3.14 - 0.88) x 1.4 / 1000. This amounts to 0.003 extra gallons of gas, assuming 33% efficiency of the ICE 31.64 / 33705 / 0.33. Since the black FFH consumed an average of 0.193 gallons if we add the extra gas we get 0.196 gallons instead. The white FFH is consuming an average of 0.219 gallons of gas. The adjusted black FFH MPG is 59.7 MPG. This leaves a difference of approximately 10.5% between the two cars. Some of the difference could be "break in" related since the white FFH had 1000-4500 miles on the odometer when I gathered this data and the black FFH had 18,000-19,000 miles on the odometer at the time of this data collection. But most of it I attribute to rolling resistance. I don't have warm weather data from the black FFH with SOC values to compare, but I will continue gathering data from the white FFH to update this data in the future.