doh!

Jun 18, 2008 20:19

ya know... I feel stupid. All this time I thought I was getting 24mpg in my car then I realized I forgot to reset my trip meter when I filled up the last two times... today I averaged 27.6mpg mixed city/highway. Thats a 15% difference from what I thought I was getting.

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skywize June 19 2008, 13:11:39 UTC
Want to shoot for 30 mpg? Avoid hard accelerations, and keep your speed at most 60 MPH (or if you have a tachometer, 2500 RPM or less).

Google 'hypermilers' for more.

:-)

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ron_overdrive June 19 2008, 13:49:09 UTC
If there were no lights on Rt 1 on the way to work I'd be able to avoid constantly stop & go traffic at the lights and just abuse the cruise control like I do on all the other major highways in the area.

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skywize June 19 2008, 14:41:06 UTC
Even without lights, the traffic would prevent you from using cruise control on Rte. 1. :-P

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ron_overdrive June 19 2008, 15:54:08 UTC
Not really, if there was no traffic lights the traffic on route 1 would move fairly smoothly after you got past menlo.

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