Hi Sdcatcher:
___Although I will never drive my Insight on your pre-determined course, this is a repost as seen over at Insightcentral.net about 5 or 6 months ago and just one of many interesting experiences I have had with my Little Beauty.
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Here is an perfect example of what I encountered on my way home from work this evening … I hit a 15 mile Interstate closure tonight on the way home from work due to an overturned Tanker on I-55 at or around Rt. 59. With that, I traveled 25.2 miles in 1 hour and 35 minutes while being forced off I-55 onto I-80 which was also now a parking lot, onto Rt. 53, and back onto I-55 near I-355. This is about as inner city urban as you can get! With forced and regular Autostops, first and or first and second gear slow launches without assist with a quick autostop for as long a coast as possible, timing what lights were encountered, as well as anticipating traffic to the best of my abilities while traversing this inner city nightmare detour through Joliet, IL., my segment mpg went from 92.3 mpg at the 16 mile point to 89.1 at the 41.2 mile point. In other words, I was in the worst traffic nightmare you could imagine with a (25.2 miles/1.5822 hours = 15.91) 15.91 miles per hour average speed and I only lost 3.1 mpg yielding ~ 88 mpg in that kind of traffic nightmare. I had 19 bars SOC lit when I entered the traffic nightmare at Rt. 6 while on I-55 and I had 19 bars lit when I entered back onto I-55 25.2 miles later. The only thing I used regen for (hidden or braking forced) was to keep the pack up for all the auto and forced stops she would encounter. The lowest I saw via SOC was 17 bars and it most certainly did not stay that low a level very long. Even with that nightmare as well as multiple other Friday night Chicago rush hour parking lots to drive through, I arrived home in 3 hours 40 minutes and still achieved a 98.4 mpg segment …
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___You really don’t want to compare an Escape HEV against a hypermiler in an Insight no matter the drive … Unless you are in a blizzard of epic proportions of course
___Good Luck
___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Hunt Club Farms Landscaping Ltd.
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Waynegerdes@earthlink.net