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[Kaotic Lazagna]

Just wanted to share my 99% freeway mileage. It was just a 33.2 mile trip (after fueling up).







That's 51.5 mpg averaging 62 mph. Pretty good imo. hahahaha. That average fuel economy will go down tomorrow since I'll be driving around town a lot for errands.

[BailOut]

Well done! It looks like your hypermiling skills are advancing.

[Loren]

Nice!

I had a good day yesterday, too. Average of about 53 (corrected to 50.3 due to tire size) for around 60 miles of cruising around town.

Will be interesting to see if my figures actually improve when I put a proper diameter tire back on the car.

[michaelmast]

is good to have a economy car because the gas is everyday going up and we received less money everyday, is a good idea know the car.

[BailOut]

Originally Posted by Loren

Nice!

I had a good day yesterday, too. Average of about 53 (corrected to 50.3 due to tire size) for around 60 miles of cruising around town.

Will be interesting to see if my figures actually improve when I put a proper diameter tire back on the car.

You guys are so lucky... I'm still fighting with temperatures below freezing in the mornings, frequent snow, parka and chains in the back 24/7...

A great day for me this time of year is around 45 MPG. heh

[1stToyota]

I've been driving mine like it's stolen this week, using Valero fuel , hitting near 80mph on the freeway , trying to let no one pass me; refueled this morning: 42.91 mpg

Been near freezing or below most mornings.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by BailOut

Well done! It looks like your hypermiling skills are advancing.

Thanks. Still trying to get better tho.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by Loren

Nice!

I had a good day yesterday, too. Average of about 53 (corrected to 50.3 due to tire size) for around 60 miles of cruising around town.

Will be interesting to see if my figures actually improve when I put a proper diameter tire back on the car.

How the heck do you do that!!!??? That's awesome. I top out at 42 mpg in the city, and that's on a good day.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by 1stToyota

I've been driving mine like it's stolen this week, using Valero fuel , hitting near 80mph on the freeway , trying to let no one pass me; refueled this morning: 42.91 mpg

Been near freezing or below most mornings.

How'd you manage to get that high mileage while going 80? Mine will chug gas if I went that fast.

[JumpmanYaris]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

How'd you manage to get that high mileage while going 80? Mine will chug gas if I went that fast.

+1..... ?

[1stToyota]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

How'd you manage to get that high mileage while going 80? Mine will chug gas if I went that fast.

I'm sure not a hypermiler, but I've always gotten better than I feel I should. Very first tank was over 43 mpg, have gotten over 44 mpg. Almost always drive 65-70 mpg on the freeway, and go 80 mph once in awhile (caught myself doing 80 mph about 3 times this week)...in fact, just yesterday on the way home to stay in front of a runaway dump truck that was blowing its load of sand on everybody behind him. The last time I can remember getting below 40 mpg was winter of '08, and I use real gas unless it can't be avoided...probably used E10 maybe 2 times within the last year or so.

[Loren]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

How the heck do you do that!!!??? That's awesome. I top out at 42 mpg in the city, and that's on a good day.

DFCO and keeping a close eye on traffic.

Accelerate gently and try to start your coast as soon as you see you're going to have to slow down. (the light half a mile ahead is green, but you know the light and you're sure it will be red before you get there... COAST) Keep a long following distance so that you never have to brake (or don't have to brake much) because the car ahead of you is turning. Choose a route that lets you cruise at a steady pace somewhere between 40 and 50 mph. (around here, that means whichever major secondary road has the least traffic, as speed limits are almost all 40-45, and traffic flow is always 50-60... or stopped)

The hardest thing is keeping people off of your tail when accelerating. Have to balance being economical with not getting run over. Usually, the impatient ones will zip around me when they see 10 car lengths of space in front of me, so it's not a big deal except when traffic is really dense. (and more often than not, they end up in the wrong lane at the next light and I casually stroll past them again)

Honestly, I don't think I'd do nearly as well if I weren't real-time monitoring. It's the "trip average" that I can constantly keep making obvious improvements to that keeps me at it. As I've said before... it's all a game for me. For as little as I drive, it wouldn't kill me to get 25 mpg. But, striving for better MPG is more challenging and safer (and generally more legal, except for the occasional rolled-through stop sign) than my old habit of "how fast can I take this curve today?"

[Kaotic Lazagna]

^ I do that, but I probably accelerate more than I should (people in Sacramento and Vallejo are idiots and will run into you). My throttle is in between 25-30 when I accelerate from a stop, but if there's no one behind me, that drops down to 20-23. Same with FAS. I'll do it as late as possible without risking getting rear ended, but again, if no one is behind me, I'll shut off the engine WAY farther back.

Places I travel have a lot of of stop signs and stop lights (and for some reason, red lights love to turn red on me before I reach them, it's like they aim for me). So may be that's why I'm not getting as high as I should be??? For the stop signs and majority of lights, I'll just use DFCO or coast in neutral (for the stop signs). For the lights that I know will take a longer time, I'll FAS it.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Oh, and my tank has now dropped to 44 mpg due to city driving for the past two days.

[devinlamothe]

Now that the weather is nice here, I've gone from 32mpg to 34mpg without doing anything differently. Less engine warm-up time is good.

Can't wait until the rest of the snow is gone.