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View Poll Results: Since Your Hybrid Purchase, How Improved is Your Fuel Economy?
It's worse 1 4.35%
up to 5% 1 4.35%
up to 10% 3 13.04%
up to 15% 4 17.39%
up to 20% 3 13.04%
up to 25% 1 4.35%
up to 30% 1 4.35%
better than 30% 9 39.13%
Voters: 23. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-21-2005, 07:36 PM
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Since Your Hybrid Purchase, How Improved is Your Fuel Economy?

18% for me to be exact.

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Old 07-21-2005, 07:40 PM
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Default Re: Since Your Hybrid Purchase, How Improved is Your Fuel Economy?

Hard to say for me, as the school year killed my mileage with lots of traffic. I started at about 45 and I can now pull 50. Eh, so I don't try hard

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Old 07-21-2005, 07:47 PM
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Default Re: Since Your Hybrid Purchase, How Improved is Your Fuel Economy?

I think my drastic change is due to a change in driving habits and "striving" to get better gas mileage. (use less a/c, reduce avg speed from 80mph down to the speed limit of 60mph, increase tire pressure in stages, etc..)

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Old 07-21-2005, 07:51 PM
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Default Re: Since Your Hybrid Purchase, How Improved is Your Fuel Economy?

The initial lifetime mpg was 48. Getting it to 56.6 was nearly an 18% improvement. If I was serious and got it to 65, it would be a 35% improvement.

I'm expecting a hypermiler to say something like they did not improve much because their fuel economy went from the statosphere to the ionosphere.

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Old 07-21-2005, 07:55 PM
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Default Re: Since Your Hybrid Purchase, How Improved is Your Fuel Economy?

Take a look at my car in the database to see my improvement.

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Old 07-21-2005, 08:57 PM
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Default Re: Since Your Hybrid Purchase, How Improved is Your Fuel Economy?

I am not sure what the question is asking.
My FE is up over 100% since I purchased my Prius compared to my Audi A4.

However my FE is up only 20% after a few tank fulls and learning how to take advantage of the systems.

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Old 07-22-2005, 04:46 AM
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Default Re: Since Your Hybrid Purchase, How Improved is Your Fuel Economy?

My year over year comparison of July 04 and July 05 in my HCH is as follows:

July 04 July 05 Difference
MPG 48.94 59.51 +10.57/21.59%
Tank 567.40 740.00 +172.25/30.33%

I am working on a tank now where the FCD shows 64.7, the best I've seen yet, but it is early in the tank (200 miles).

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Old 07-22-2005, 06:04 AM
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from 59 to 60
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Old 07-22-2005, 08:33 AM
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Default Re: Since Your Hybrid Purchase, How Improved is Your Fuel Economy?

I am not sure what the question is asking.

I'm confused too. Answering the question as I understand it, my mileage has improved nearly 100%. And note carefully that this is from my previous car, which was itself a Honda Civic (Si).

This improvement from 25mpg to nearly 50mpg can probably be attributed to:
- former car being more performance-minded (2.0L)
- some changes to driving habits (not drastic)
- hybrid technology
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Old 07-22-2005, 08:56 AM
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Default Clarification

I meant: "how much improvement in your fuel economy since buying your hybrid?"

For instance, I got 48mpg when it was new - 56.6mph now. Improvment is nearly 18%. I don't mean compare it to what you had previously.

Sorry for the confusion.

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