Does your Spouse support your hypermiling ?

[puddleglum]

I wouldn't say my wife supports it, but she reluctantly puts up with it since she doesn't really like driving. My wife and I share one car. I have a company van for my commute so it's her car during the day and I drive on evenings and weekends. I have been told not to try to change her driving habits, although she's admitted that a little is rubbing off. Still, Most of our in town trips are pretty short, so it's really hard to get good tank numbers when I'm only doing half to 2/3 of the driving.

[320touring]

My girlfriend puts about 60% of the miles on the iS, and its stayed circa 39-40mpg average over the last 14000+ miles.

She did 350 of the miles on the 45mpg+ tanks, so can deffo P&G well.

She also keeps the reciepts for fuel and records mileages, plus helps service the car.

WIN!

[SentraSE-R]

My wife reluctantly tolerates my foolishness. I've installed an SGII in her car, and one of the gauges I've set up is trip fuel cost. That, more than anything else, catches her attention, since she doesn't like the $40 and $50 fueling cost. When she sees that trip A costs her a dollar, she thinks about consolidating them.

She had a knee replacement last Summer, and I put my first two full local driving tanks through her AT Elantra. I managed 33.3 mpg and 35.0 mpg, v. the 40+ mpg I've averaged on long trips. She averages more like 25 mpg because of short trips to McGrease, Booger King, etc.

She hypermiles the most by letting me drive wherever we go together. She asked me to drive her to her college twice earlier this week for registration, and I got ~60 mpg driving my car.

[tim3058]

Haha Sentra, at least you get some cooperation. My wife refuses to either hit the trip odometer or get a receipt when she fills up her car. She has no interest in ever riding in my "crummy" Civic again, despite the fact I get like 20mpg better than her Civic.

[bestclimb]

My wife gets mad at me when I drive her car to fast and wreck her mileage.

[HAHA]

I have trained my spouse hard in eco-driving since she got her license a few years ago. Now she is more frustrated than me when other drivers do their erratic driving and interfering with her eco-driving. She has gotten so used to P&G she can't really drive in a steady state anymore without feeling bad about the wasted energy.

There is no instrumentation in our Civic so consumption is measured when we fill up. If the average is worse than normal, she gets concerned. Sometimes, she is embarrassed to tell me if the figures are bad. I take it she is more into this as a sort of competition (with herself) rather than to save money. She don't really consider using public transportation or a bike instead of the car. She has no problems with eco-modding but doesn't take much interest in it herself.

[NachtRitter]

It is rubbing off on my wife too. Initially when I only had the VX, it was an 'eccentricity' since she did not like driving the VX (heck, even I didn't like driving the VX due to the hills around here!). But since I've gotten the TDI which both of us enjoy driving, she has gotten a lot more into it! She can get over 40mpg without even trying, but I can get over 50 with a little effort... She does notice this and tries to do better (without making it seem like she's trying)