5 Bars Left and 300 miles!

[Altitude]

Originally Posted by daf62757

I have a few hills around my neck of the woods. I just got an ecometer and you quickly learn that you can go up hills with minimal effort. The gauge lets you go light on the pedal and still maintain speed up the hill. I just filled up today and my around town MPG was 38.1. That is up from the 31 MPG I was getting before I got the ecogauge.

I have a scanguage2 so I do watch the MPG/TPS values quite a lot. There have been *days* where I can get over 40mpg, but never averaged over a tank. I think a combination of hills and thinner atmosphere are just too much to overcome for me.

I did notice when I was visiting family in Maryland that my mileage improved quite a bit so I think MPG's in this car (and all others for that matter) are highly dependant upon where it is driven. I'm thinking people with stellar MPGS numbers must live in generally flat, low altitude areas.