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I drove a friend to DMV today to finalize a car purchase, then did some experimenting on a 10 mile country road loop. I did five iterations of the loop, trying different loads and pulse/glide deltas. My worst mileage was 63 mpg, and my best was 67 mpg.

Tonight my wife asked me to drive her to her office, as she left a bottle of Coca Cola in the freezer there. It's only a 3 mile drive each way, but I managed 49 mpg doing it. The secret is to climb a big hill first. I got 22 mpg for the first mile and a fraction climbing that hill. Then I coasted the rest of the way to her office, going down a long downhill and building speed to climb a long uphill to her office. At the halfway point, I was averaging 40 mpg. Leaving her office, I coasted downhill to sea level, and P&Ged through an empty industrial park, raising my trip average to 48 mpg. I have a 100' elevation gain on that way home, and then I can coast most of the way home through a 25 mph residential zone. I always gain at least 1/2 mpg average on that last leg home, if my trips are 10 miles or less.