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Originally Posted by FastMover
5. Are you willing to accept "social pressures" in traffic when hypermiling? ON a recent trip to the coast, my 58 miles per hour target speed showed 44-46 MPG on the gauge (proved by fill calculations), but on the Washington highways that got me there, the average speed over short segments was probably well in excess of 70 MPH for some of the cars that passed me and they would probably number in the several hundreds. I did get there 20 minutes behind some of them. That is not always easy to accept in some social situations.
My reward was 45.2 MPG vs a very probable 37 MPG. A savings of slightly over 5 bucks or 1.3 gallons for the 354 mile trip (just over half a tank). Time lost, less than 20 minutes for the day trip of 11.5 hours total or about 6 hours of driving. Worth it? You decide. |
When traveling on the Washington Highway, did anyone, as they passed by, tell you that you were number 1?
Marianne,
I wouldn't declare yourself as a failure in hypermileing. The one thing that I have tried to do is to after the pulse and during the glide phase, to get all the power flows to go dark like your supposed to. Just can't do it no matter how light I reapply the gas peddle. Anyone else try and have that problem? That is supposed to be one of the best tricks to increase mileage.