Fuel Economy

[Ziv]

Originally Posted by Jem_hadar

HURTING!

I got only 28.89 US miles per gallon on my most recent tank! :S

555 km with a 45.19L fill up (45L bc I was right near empty, so I needed to put $5 in it to get me to Newmarket to visit a friend where gas was priced 7 cents cheaper than here locally)

I guess about 300 KM of them were highway kms... on the 400 and 404, but whenever I'm on these roads I usually on average traveling like 140km (sometimes higher at 150km/h and sometimes lower around 120km/h)

That must be whats killing my fuel efficiency, the high speeds at which I'm travel is just needlessly burning extra fuel.

Im not massively concerned about the low mpg on my yaris, bc if I was driving any other car it would also only be worse than the estimates when traveling at such speed.

Though, maybe I will think about traveling a more regular 110km/h next time I'm going to Toronto and back, to try to really improve that fuel efficiency.

I had no idea that traveling at such speeds really was killing my mpg so badly. (sad)

Jem

Yeah, I found it hurt a bit when I go near 160km/h on 404. To balance it out, what I do is the following:

Try accelerate the car under 2500rpm on lights. It's hard, because most car would pass you, but it saves sh!tload of gas.
Only turn on A/C on highway, and turn it off when in traffic. Sure, it's hot as hell sometimes, but it's already september, this should be easier than May or June.

By doing so, I get an extra nearly 50~70 km on a tank.