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you really should moonlight like some HDTV calibration guys and do a region-by-region tour, offering clinics or 1-on-1 sessions for handsome recompense.

There's a business case here...

Great Story Wayne - The world needs your talents. Go out and proselytize to the masses !! Honda and Toyota still need "Hypermiling Trainers" if they are going to compete with the Ford training team. You know you have about 1000 references on this website - offer to lead a training team !!

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I know how you feel when it comes to retarded traffic. I couldn't sleep last night so I gave up trying by about 2:30am, sat on the computer for a while and got ready for work around 4am. I was out the door by 5:15am expecting to be at work around 5:35am. Instead Interstate 10 was closed, diverting all I-10 traffic to surface streets. It "only" cost me about 20 minutes of sitting in line waiting to get off the freeway, but I had really been looking forward to having an awesome FE morning since there's normally no traffic at 5:30am. I forgot all about the drunks who go and kill themselves on the interstate in the early morning.

wayne, i feel your pain, at least as far as the high wind goes. we had 40MPH winds almost all day on wednesday. they were at my right rear quarter panel all the way to work, and that was great. all day long i watched out the window, and they did not let up. i was not going to catch a break on the way home. it was like driving a cork.

i don't think i could do your commute to work for anything. the traffic sounds insane. i was born in the chicago area, and have been there several times in the past 10 years or so on an overnight during a vacation, but i took amtrak and didn't have to deal with the crazy freeways.

i am very lucky in that my 40 miles to work means a 40 minute drive, unless it's snowing heavily. i have my 2 miles of dirt to get to the 4 lane, there are 2 stoplights, one in each small town i go through, and then i work at the edge of town when i get there. hop off the highway, turn the corner and i am there. today, since it's a holiday, there was hardly any traffic.

the best part is that all summer was spent resurfacing about 30 miles of the drive, nice SMOOTH asphalt, great for the FE. and this is not like driving a city 4 lane, with bumper to bumper. as a matter of fact, i frequently see the same vehicles on a daily basis since the traffic is light enough until right before town.

the worst part is friday night during hunting season. i take the backroads.

Best fill 66.7 MPG, best tank 801.5 miles



laurie, central minnesota

Thanks Wayne!

What I've really noticed in your post is despite all of the multitude of seemingly endless flow of obsticles you still ended up with 46.5 + mpg in your regular non-hybrid Accord.
Outstanding!
Many people make the mistake of thinking that a hypermilers commute is optimal and perfect, which you've shown is just flat wrong...often times is just opposite.

I've posted tips and other information in several automotive forums around the net and there are always people saying "If only I had such a blessed commute" as if the hypermiler has some unseen force or "Angel".

It only shows hypermiling isn't limited to a small few, but for those who are willing to ask, apply, experiment and try.

Thanks for that post!

Laurie, I grew up the first 22 years in the Bloomington/Richfield area and can't imagine the difficulty in hypermiling in those conditions.
I'd be willing to bet that you were getting the best FE of any vehicles on the road that day!

Efficient drivers do it better.
1003 miles a tank personal record. 74MPG calculated. HCH1 CVT

I had a similar experience on this tank. It seemed everywhere I went this week was into a strong headwind. On I-94 I saw a old tiny Escort nearly lose it and blow off the road at one point!

I watched the MPG on the display go from 33.8 down to 32.7, and dance around in between for nearly 400 miles. Then I get gas, and lo and behold, 34.6!

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hot georgia, i got out of the minneapolis area 10 years ago and never looked back. if anyone isn't familiar with it, the area you listed above is one of the worse places to drive, much less hypermile.

HG, i now live 40 miles northwest of st. cloud, by little falls. so my commute takes me into the st cloud area, not minneapolis, thank dog.

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laurie, central minnesota