Not bad, I can live with those.

I still like TaHy though.

I guess to do a little bragging, I won the MPG Challenge last weekend at Hybridfest 2008, including the large SUV and truck division in a TaHy (As well as my own division of the smaller SUV's in my FEH). The course was quite aggressive and had a very tight time limit, with a 2% MPG penalty for each minute after your target time until 10 minutes, which resulted in disqualification. Much of the ~27 mile course was speed limit 50, and if you obeyed all the speed limit signs, and caught all the lights, you would be 5 minutes under your target time, so there's no lollygagging there. These are real world numbers.

I took out the TaHy the night before for a quick reacclimation drive, and again with a newscrew that morning, but I still didn't develop the best techniques until about mile 16 during the actual challenge. It seems the TaHy doesn't like to be babied too much, and without a technique like the FEH's double tap to get the ICE off, I found that a version of high speed pulse and glide really works well for the vehicle. Accelerating 5 MPH over the speed limit, then coasting back down to 5 MPH under the speed limit and repeating resulted in some nice fuel economy numbers. I wouldn't advocate it in heavy traffic, or with people with little patience, but on a nice quiet open course, it worked very well, I saw a lot of 99 MPG on the instant FE Gauge.

I finished the course with a reading of 29 MPG, winning the division.

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