anyone posting mileage anymore??
#1
anyone posting mileage anymore??
I was walking through the HAH listings in the database and noticed very few folks posting numbers since December or so. I know winter MPG is depressing, especially in our big thirsty V6s, but the database NEEDS all your numbers or it loses relevance and GH becomes just another place for green wierdos instead of a valuable tool for existing and potential owners.
The database show the rock stars and the rocks, and the largest sampling available anywhere that helps people decide whether a hybrid is for them or not.
PLEASE contribute your fuel figures to the database! I feel sort of lonely in there.
To those who are adding to it, thank you for sticking with it. It gets monotonous, but showing the vehicle's performance with a large data set over extended periods and seasons is an invaluable asset that makes it pretty authoritative by sheer mass of data.
The database show the rock stars and the rocks, and the largest sampling available anywhere that helps people decide whether a hybrid is for them or not.
PLEASE contribute your fuel figures to the database! I feel sort of lonely in there.
To those who are adding to it, thank you for sticking with it. It gets monotonous, but showing the vehicle's performance with a large data set over extended periods and seasons is an invaluable asset that makes it pretty authoritative by sheer mass of data.
#3
Re: anyone posting mileage anymore??
Haha, Bryan. I guarantee you people are still submitting! There are 1,600 cars and over 23 million miles logged at this moment. The numbers keep growing, and at a much faster pace than they used to - I assure you! Not to worry.
#4
Re: anyone posting mileage anymore??
I mean the Accord's section, not the DB as a whole. Comparatively far fewer members adding tanks since January than were being posted Oct-Dec. It may be a seasonal lull and will pick up as car-buying season approaches, but to those who are out there but not posting, please do!!!
#5
Re: anyone posting mileage anymore??
Originally Posted by RichC
Posted today but have been lax at updating. (of course nobody cares since I'm not a hybrid)
#8
Re: anyone posting mileage anymore??
I stopped keeping track. I can tell from how many trips to work I get out of a tank if its close to what I feel I'm happy with..I have to fill up about every 3 trips.
#9
Re: anyone posting mileage anymore??
I wish I had stopped. Last few tanks put me under hypermiler status. The short (5 - 10 minutes) trips with the family to go shopping are killing me(ummm, I mean my mileage).
#10
Re: anyone posting mileage anymore??
I have posted every single tank for my HAH as well as for my boyfriend's Highlander Hybrid. I have noticed that several that have reached hypermiler status stopped so they would not lose their status.
If it were not for occassional trips to Austin or Houston, I think I would be at the bottom of the list. All my trips are short. I travel 1.7 miles to the light rail station, and 1.7 back home each day for work. When I bought my car I thought that I would average about 30 mpg which would be the low end of the estimated 29 - 37 mpg that I was led to believe by the EPA. I am actually averaging the same as what I was getting on my non hybrid accord. So I overpaid about $9000 over a similarly equiped accord, and did not get a sunroof or a spare tire but did get the constant display of mpg to remind me that my gas mileage is 22 mpg or less.
To add insult to injury, I tried to trade my car (with nav and less than 10,000 miles in absolutely mint condition) and was offered only $23,500.
If it were not for occassional trips to Austin or Houston, I think I would be at the bottom of the list. All my trips are short. I travel 1.7 miles to the light rail station, and 1.7 back home each day for work. When I bought my car I thought that I would average about 30 mpg which would be the low end of the estimated 29 - 37 mpg that I was led to believe by the EPA. I am actually averaging the same as what I was getting on my non hybrid accord. So I overpaid about $9000 over a similarly equiped accord, and did not get a sunroof or a spare tire but did get the constant display of mpg to remind me that my gas mileage is 22 mpg or less.
To add insult to injury, I tried to trade my car (with nav and less than 10,000 miles in absolutely mint condition) and was offered only $23,500.