I see lots of people with dynamic mileage signatures for non-hybrid vehicles. I thought you had to have a "car #" from the database to do a DMS, but I don't see any way to put a non-hybrid into the DB. So how do you do it?

I thought it would be neat to put my non-hybrid Ford Escape in, to provide a direct comparison to the FEH.

Edit: Oh, never mind. I just figured it out! I discovered the little "non-hybrid" link on the right panel in the main DB screen. THERE they are!

 

Other than the mileage being better, there is no way to determine whether they are both hybrid, neither are hybrid, or the one with the better mileage is a hybrid. At least for the uninformed that might visit. No hybrid escapes in 02.

 

I'm thinking... how about a "miles per charge" option for those rare folk with EVs? Also... how does "MPG" work for natural-gas vehicles, since they are fuelled with a gas, not a liquid?

 

I'll see about adding "Hybrid" when I can.

 

Whats the point of having numbers for these. They don't compare equally.

The only way to be able to compare them would be dollars per mile. But then with prices for Gasoline, electricity, or natural gas always in flux it also wouldn't be a good comparison unless you kept a running total of dollars spent per mile driven.

Overall its realy hard to find a way to compare apples to apples when the vehicles power systems are so drasticly different.

 

Well, ultimately the figure most of us care about is indeed miles per dollar, but like you said, it's hard to compare between folks since fuel prices are different around the country. It would, however, permit unlike comparisons, such as between folks running 87 or 91 octane gas, diesel (which is price anywhere from 87 to above 91 octane, or could even be made at home) and those who have propane/natural gas fueld vehicles, EV's, and so on. It wouldn't be real useful on an individual basis however.

 

MG48 - is that better? At least the sig for the non-hybrid is a bit more clear. I can't change the descriptor for the hybrid, but Jason says he's working on that, I think.

 

Fixed. This was actually an error on my part. The correct code was there but by typing the wrong variable in the script at a certain point, I rendered it useless.

 

Thanks!