MPG Happy Talk

[gkinla]

This was in heavy traffic on Los Angeles surface streets. This I can live with.

 

[corncobs]

Not sure why on my back from the airport I was barely able to crack 40 MPG on the instant gauge at 65 MPH. Maybe because I left her in the parking garage overnight by herself. ;-)

Anyway here the trip summary which is further proof that my daily commute is very hybrid friendly.

 

[gkinla]

This is the same route to the store as above. This hypermiling for short distances can be fun.

 

[neod192]

This is the same route to the store as above. This hypermiling for short distances can be fun.

It's like having an Energi!

 

Here's my commute this morning. Back in the 50's!

 

[gadgetguy]

Ok so I see all these Happy posts and I am glad I can add my own lol. I went a totally different route this morning that was 75% city and 25% highway but where the highway speed limit was 55 so I could maintain 60-62 w/o obstructing traffic. The drive is about 4 miles shorter 15 minutes longer which the time could probably be dropped some if I left a little earlier and didn't get stopped at every light. I left the house with the battery about 75%,ICE was cold and the temp was 61 so no A/C and windows cracked. Very pleasant drive this morning. Also keep in mind I have my tire pressure set to 37 psi cold. :shift:

:happy feet: :dance:

 

This route shows potential for even better mpg once I adjust to the drive and I do think I could knock a little time off as well. I am going to take this route in tomorrow and Friday and see how it fairs.

[corncobs]

Now that I have found that there is MPG display for trip 2 I can section off my daily commute. Here is the intermediate result after the city driving and before entering the interstate.

 

 

Final trip result was 49.2 MPG.

[acdii]

Happy right now with hovering around 42. Its a bit better than the 10 got on the same trip, and still adjusting to the car. This morning I just set the cruise and relaxed for a good portion of the trip, which has increased to 37 miles from the usual 34. Also had the defrost going so the AC was most likely on too.

 

Last night on the trip home, 46.7 WOOHOO! Never did I see that in the other car on any trip like this.

[gadgetguy]

Happy right now with hovering around 42. Its a bit better than the 10 got on the same trip, and still adjusting to the car. This morning I just set the cruise and relaxed for a good portion of the trip, which has increased to 37 miles from the usual 34. Also had the defrost going so the AC was most likely on too.

 

Last night on the trip home, 46.7 WOOHOO! Never did I see that in the other car on any trip like this.

 

I'm so glad that this one seems to be on par and yielding the results it should!

[acdii]

Its consistent! That is the biggest relief. And that is why at this point, I really dont care if I dont get more than 43 MPG on average, because it GETS 43 MPG on average, not 34 one trip, 44 the next, 36 the next, 32 the next, etc. :) :happy feet: :shift: :worship: :yahoo:

 

Now that the SCV is working, 100% thrilled with it.

[Da0ne]

Happy right now with hovering around 42. Its a bit better than the 10 got on the same trip, and still adjusting to the car. This morning I just set the cruise and relaxed for a good portion of the trip, which has increased to 37 miles from the usual 34. Also had the defrost going so the AC was most likely on too.

 

Last night on the trip home, 46.7 WOOHOO! Never did I see that in the other car on any trip like this.

 

you should contact those a holes that said you dont know how to drive the hybrid, this clearly shows the car was defected and so are the others that cant break pass 37 mpg

[Riggo]

So when you had your old car acdii did you ever have weather like it is now or was it a lot colder?

[Guardian_Bob]

So I drove "badly" (fast acceleration, somewhat hard braking due to people on bikes) and got some of the best numbers I've had yet.

 

Not sure why.

Edited June 5, 2013 by Guardian_Bob

[acdii]

So when you had your old car acdii did you ever have weather like it is now or was it a lot colder?

I drove it in warmer weather down in Florida, and could not get what I am getting now! Adding the grill cover did help it get up to 38 once or twice in the really cold weather though, so going to make sure I make another set for this one before winter comes around.

[Riggo]

I drove it in warmer weather down in Florida, and could not get what I am getting now! Adding the grill cover did help it get up to 38 once or twice in the really cold weather though, so going to make sure I make another set for this one before winter comes around.

 

Oh ok, well that's good to know. So hopefully the other car really was just a lemon.

[acdii]

 

Oh ok, well that's good to know. So hopefully the other car really was just a lemon.

Well if the plug fouling was any indication....

 

Anyhow thats in the past, dont care, dont want to know, just moving forward and enjoying my new car, FINALLY!

[kuzzi]

Same story, different day. Started with AC at 85F, power draw never crossed the 2nd hash mark. After the power draw went below the first hash I lowered temp by 5 degrees and power draw remained the same, again, I was comfortable.

 

Same traffic as always, never really getting above 60mph unless I'm on the beltway. Stop and go on 45. I pulled into gas station with 3 miles to empty and was greeted with this for the trip. I like the consistency.

 

 

Then after fillup of 12.125 gallons, I uploaded info to Fuelly and had to gun it to merge with traffic three times but EV+ helped to alleviate any bad results and managed to cruise for a little ways too. This was the reading when I finally got home from the gas station.

 

 

Fun Fact: As I was pulling into the garage, I could hear the gasoline sloshing around in the tank.

Edited June 5, 2013 by kuzzi

[acdii]

 

Oh ok, well that's good to know. So hopefully the other car really was just a lemon.

Thinking back, YEP! I was thinking about it on the way home, the temp is 58* and raining, and I remember driving in very similar weather here when I had the other car and could barely crack 36, if that, and this one is 41, 42, and 39, I had 3 stops, pick up the kids, stop at the dealer, and then home. The trip from the inlaws to the dealer was the lowest only because majority of the drive is uphill. The other two very much where I expected it to be in this weather, so Yep Me be very satisfied!

 

Side note, the dealer informed me that my old 2010 has been wrecked, it was involved in a 5 car pile up just up the road when a tech took it on an evaluation drive before they put it up for sale. He was in a line of cars at a light when someone plowed into the car behind him, which then plowed into him, and pushed him into another car. Really sad to hear that too, it was a good car. I dont know what they will do with it, but that really sucks. I'm just glad they had it hiding away.

[gadgetguy]

Good morning fellow FFH fanatics lol... Hope everyone is well today.

 

My drive :shift: home yesterday was a bit different since I was at our Downtown Nashville campus so this was all interstate but it was rush hour so speeds ranged from stop and go (or coasting the best I could) to 75 mph. Not bad..

 

This is my commute this morning which I took the same route I took yesterday that yielded 50.1. This morning when I left the house ICE was warm, temp was 67 but it was lightly raining and I had the A/C on. Yesterday was no rain and no A/C. So I can only assume the weather and A/C contributed to the lower mpg. Hopefully tomorrow it will not be raining and I can duplicate yesterday's environment/results. Still this is not bad by any means!! Posting these results :camera: as we all do never gets old to me lol.

 

My lifetime (which was reset at 5176 which was my first oil change) has climbed to 40.9. When I reset it at 5176 it was 38.7 so I am definitely on track to a better overall lifetime number.

 

One thing that this car has done for me personally is it has really calmed me down on the road, lowered my stress level and allowed me to enjoy :) driving again! When I hit a traffic jam I say "oh well I will get some decent mpg" and just lean back and enjoy the ride! I do miss at times having some real HP under my right foot as I have always been somewhat of a performance enthusiast but that doesn't last long. As soon as I look back at the mpg average and I pass a gas station with gas at $3.29 a gallon it makes me very happy to be cruising in the best looking, best driving hybrid around! Oh and this car has some decent get up and go, its no slouch when you need it.

 

Happy Hybriding!!!! :shift: :happy feet:

Edited June 6, 2013 by gadgetguy

[hybridbear]

Adding the grill cover did help it get up to 38 once or twice in the really cold weather though, so going to make sure I make another set for this one before winter comes around.

I feel like I should give you the grille cover back now...Even when it has been hot out here I've kept it on. So far it's never been warm enough to need to take it off. I'll have to watch on our trip across Canada when we're driving for hours on the freeway without the ICE shutting off but I don't expect any issues because there's so much air that still flows through.

 

I think we should just ban hybridbear from posting in this thread. It makes me want to pull my hear out because I can't achieve those #s :rant2: and I bet I'm not alone ! lol :shift:

Hey!! ;) maybe I have someone pushing like this :shoppingcart_: or pulling like this :dogwalk:

 

Fun Fact: As I was pulling into the garage, I could hear the gasoline sloshing around in the tank.

Did you see my post in the topic about tank size about how hearing the gas sloshing got my wife and me all paranoid?? Haha it was rather amusing once we figured out what it was making the noise

 

One thing that this car has done for me personally is it has really calmed me down on the road, lowered my stress level and allowed me to enjoy :) driving again! When I hit a traffic jam I say "oh well I will get some decent mpg" and just lean back and enjoy the ride! I do miss at times having some real HP under my right foot as I have always been somewhat of a performance enthusiast but that doesn't last long. As soon as I look back at the mpg average and I pass a gas station with gas at $3.29 a gallon it makes me very happy to be cruising in the best looking, best driving hybrid around! Oh and this car has some decent get up and go, its no slouch when you need it.

 

Happy Hybriding!!!! :shift: :happy feet:

Great comments, my sentiments too. It has really lowered my stress behind the wheel and even though it might take me longer to get places I arrive more relaxed and I enjoy the ride. After having owned Saabs in the past with turbos and then the Honda Accord Hybrid that had 255 or so horsepower I don't find that I miss it very much, and I definitely don't miss buying gas every week or paying for premium in the Saabs. And now with our gas prices around $4/gal I'm even happier.

[Guardian_Bob]

Good morning fellow FFH fanatics lol... Hope everyone is well today.

 

My drive :shift: home yesterday was a bit different since I was at our Downtown Nashville campus so this was all interstate but it was rush hour so speeds ranged from stop and go (or coasting the best I could) to 75 mph. Not bad..

 

This is my commute this morning which I took the same route I took yesterday that yielded 50.1. This morning when I left the house ICE was warm, temp was 67 but it was lightly raining and I had the A/C on. Yesterday was no rain and no A/C. So I can only assume the weather and A/C contributed to the lower mpg. Hopefully tomorrow it will not be raining and I can duplicate yesterday's environment/results. Still this is not bad by any means!! Posting these results :camera: as we all do never gets old to me lol.

 

My lifetime (which was reset at 5176 which was my first oil change) has climbed to 40.9. When I reset it at 5176 it was 38.7 so I am definitely on track to a better overall lifetime number.

 

One thing that this car has done for me personally is it has really calmed me down on the road, lowered my stress level and allowed me to enjoy :) driving again! When I hit a traffic jam I say "oh well I will get some decent mpg" and just lean back and enjoy the ride! I do miss at times having some real HP under my right foot as I have always been somewhat of a performance enthusiast but that doesn't last long. As soon as I look back at the mpg average and I pass a gas station with gas at $3.29 a gallon it makes me very happy to be cruising in the best looking, best driving hybrid around! Oh and this car has some decent get up and go, its no slouch when you need it.

 

Happy Hybriding!!!! :shift: :happy feet:

 

$3.29/gallon? Wow. It is 3.95/gallon here. I know of one gas station that just put up a big screw instead of a price.

[corncobs]

Good morning fellow FFH fanatics lol... Hope everyone is well

 

One thing that this car has done for me personally is it has really calmed me down on the road, lowered my stress level and allowed me to enjoy :) driving again! When I hit a traffic jam I say "oh well I will get some decent mpg" and just lean back and enjoy the ride! I do miss at times having some real HP under my right foot as I have always been somewhat of a performance enthusiast but that doesn't last long. As soon as I look back at the mpg average and I pass a gas station with gas at $3.29 a gallon it makes me very happy to be cruising in the best looking, best driving hybrid around! Oh and this car has some decent get up and go, its no slouch when you need it.

 

Happy Hybriding!!!! :shift: :happy feet:

Nice number and even better comment about relaxed driving in a FFH; I tend you think the same things especially when sitting in rush hour traffic. Hey no problem I'm not wasting a drop of gas while sitting here and I can creep along in EV mode making virtually no noise except maybe with the stereo.

 

Now only a few more hours until I will be on vacation for the next 2 weeks.

 

:happy feet:

[gadgetguy]

Nice number and even better comment about relaxed driving in a FFH; I tend you think the same things especially when sitting in rush hour traffic. Hey no problem I'm not wasting a drop of gas while sitting here and I can creep along in EV mode making virtually no noise except maybe with the stereo.

 

Now only a few more hours until I will be on vacation for the next 2 weeks.

 

:happy feet:

Thanks!

 

Woohoo vacation time lol... Have an awesome time!

[acdii]

I feel like I should give you the grille cover back now...Even when it has been hot out here I've kept it on. So far it's never been warm enough to need to take it off. I'll have to watch on our trip across Canada when we're driving for hours on the freeway without the ICE shutting off but I don't expect any issues because there's so much air that still flows through.

 

 

Oh no, you keep them! I have plenty of material left over to make new ones, and made a template too. I'm glad to see that they work out so well. I may experiment with painting the back side black and seeing how it looks.

[hybridbear]

Oh no, you keep them! I have plenty of material left over to make new ones, and made a template too. I'm glad to see that they work out so well. I may experiment with painting the back side black and seeing how it looks.

Thanks again!! I'm almost eager for winter to come again so I can see their impact in the really cold weather

[acdii]

Thanks again!! I'm almost eager for winter to come again so I can see their impact in the really cold weather

LOL I for one am not. I dont mind cold weather, but this last winter was brutal!