Hey Guys!

I noticed you hypermilers picked "a smooth section of I65" for your experiment. Does this mean "flat" or was there an incline involved?

I own an Escape Hybrid in the Denver area, and I get MUCH better results in hilly terrain. With EPA ratings of City 36 and Highway 33 I can get up to 56 MPG in hilly terrain, and the best I have done on flat highways is 50 MPG. This is doing about 40 - 45 MPH. Do you think the mass ( 4000 pounds for my car ) helps me get more regenerative power on the way down, ( as a relative percentage ) than you guys with the little "light" cars? Also, my FEH has much more wind drag than the Prius or Insight, slowing me down more than you guys. I recently went almost from Las Vegas to Denver on one tank, in a 4,000 pound SUV, on 14 gallons of gas. Not bad at all ( I think! )
-John

 

All I can say is FANTASTIC!!Kevin

 

Dave's retelling here of my encounter with the cop is as accurate as I remember it in every material way.

As for the terrain, gpsman1, it was by no means flat. There were plenty of small hills to climb and glide down. There were even two or three hills that were unnecessarily large and painful to mpg to be included in the course, but then again, we also got to glide down these hills after climbing them and such hills are a part of everyone's reality (unless you live in some parts of Texas).

Have you all seen the thread started in the Honda Civic Hybrid forum about an HCH Marathon brewing? https://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/...yone.3077.html

 

Either computation method has imperfections because the inputs lack absolute certainty. The average of the 2 methods, for what it is worth, is 110.03 mpg. We can live with that.


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Originally Posted by xcel (in another thread)
Hi All:

Cumulative FE after 12 drivers and ~ 48 RT segments: 2248.7 Km at 46.52 Km/L or 1397.3 Miles @ 109.4 mpg per the SuperMID.

Cumulative FE per Prius II installed odometer and fuel from station + gas can – gas to drive to the station: 1397.3/12.627 gallons (11.738 from the station + .93 gallons from a gas can after run out - .0409) = 1397.3 Miles @ 110.66 mpg

___Wayne

 

Haha, Bob. You're a role model! How cute

 

I argued with Bob via private email that we should stick with the lower figure, so there'd be no hint of us trying to fudge our numbers, but the more I think about it the more I think that 110 mpg figure makes the most sense, especially since the difference between the two is only a tenth of a gallon. So 110 mpg it is! (at least when I tell the story....)

Dave Bassage

 

Did you all realize The Associated Press is distributing your story?
http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=v...y&storyid=4444

 

Some more new outlets:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ne...nG=Search+News

 

Dont forget about the article I wrote as well:
http://hybridcars.about.com/od/news/a/100mpgrecord.htm

 

Fantastic!

It's through tremendous efforts like this that we all see what can be done. Also the publicity will tend to encourage more drivers to seek higher efficiency in car selection - hopefully spurring manufacturers to provide better and more choices.

Congratulations guys.