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Old 08-23-2005, 08:07 AM
Althea Althea is offline
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Real Name: Sonja
Location: St. Louis, MO
Hybrids: Honda Insight 2001
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Default my first 80+ segment!

Finally achieved my first 80+ segment with my 2001 Insight. (bought used 1 year ago.) Been envying all of you hypermilers - finally getting there myself.

Just came back from a St. Louis to Milwaukee and home again trip. Overall mpg for the entire 827 mile trip was 77mpg but the return segment of 363 miles I got 84.3 mpg.
Primary factors contributing to the high numbers on way home were that I didn't use the A/C (used it on the way up) and drove much slower than usual, 50-53 miles per hour.

Is this what all you hypermilers do? Drive real slow? If any of you manage to drive any faster - even 60mph I would love to hear any tips you might have on long highway trips.
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