How many miles a week do you drive? - Page 2 - Fuel Economy, Hypermiling, EcoModding News and Forum

comptiger5000 · 08-04-2010, 10:05 PM

Most weeks, I'm around 80 - 110 miles. However, there are some that get up to 200 or so, maybe even a bit more. Fortunately, I don't drive a ton, so I get at least a week (at worst), or as much as 2 weeks from a tank of gas in the beast. Of course, when I'm traveling to college, I'll burn a tank (estimated 17 - 18 gallons at fillup) in about 7 hours... Fortunately, that won't happen more than twice (once each way) every couple of months.

cfg83 · 08-04-2010, 11:52 PM

honestabe -

I put in 250-300, but it's probably closer to the upper end of 300-350.

CarloSW2

ac7ss · 08-05-2010, 03:13 PM

About 9.5 gallons a week. 560 miles.

Arragonis · 08-05-2010, 03:45 PM

I average about 160 miles to and from work most weeks with occasional uk stylee 'road trips' to see clients all over England.

As a contrast the MD of my company comes in once a week

and I still use less fuel than he does for the whole 7 days.

comptiger5000 · 08-05-2010, 08:30 PM

Arragonis - What does the MD drive?

sid · 08-05-2010, 09:53 PM

Definitely less than 50 miles for a typical week. But I do take about 6 to 10 long driving trips a year. So my yearly average is probably about 7500 miles/year.

I also ride my bicycle about 120 miles during a typical week. But the weeks I take long driving trips I usually don't ride bike. Plus weather or other activities may interfere with my bike rides. So I typically ride my bike about 4500 miles/year.

Clev · 08-06-2010, 12:52 AM

65 each way, so 650 a week. (Sigh)

Arragonis · 08-06-2010, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by comptiger5000

Arragonis - What does the MD drive?

Supercharged Range Rover - He let me have a go for around 10 miles and used a gallon.

comptiger5000 · 08-06-2010, 11:35 AM

Wow. 10mpg in town! That and the SRT8 Jeep (most report 8-10 mpg in town) have to be two of the few vehicles worse than mine for gas mileage.

Piwoslaw · 08-09-2010, 05:40 AM

On average: just shy of 150 miles per week.
But most often the car spends 2-3 weeks in the driveway without starting the engine, then does 600-700mi in a weekend. The average I got is based on the following calculation: 21000 km in about 21 months, which gives about 145 mi/week. On average, of course.