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Well, I've been in the FE game for a couple of years. My focus has been on driving technique first with my Accord and now with my Prius (for the last 18 months). It's a fantastic piece of machinery and I have a good relationship with it, having turned in tanks in the 65-70mpg range in mixed driving. I haven't messed with the hardware much except for the ubiquitous "EV button" and the usual good setup and maintenance practices. The car's one major shortcoming is highway mileage, as FE drops off sharply above 60mph or so. I did away with the speed bug long ago but I would like to find ways to improve the highway numbers in the 60-65mph range since I make a couple of ~2000mi trips each year to visit family. Fortunately it's a good car for road trips.
Beyond that, I'm a mechanical engineer so I spend my days either making sense of data, in the lab figuring out how to get more data, or pushing the paper around my desk that proves than my data is meaningful. (I really enjoy fresh design work but don't get to do much of it in my industry.) And I do have a thing for theoretical physics, though I rarely understand the math. It's the concepts that intrigue me, and I have to believe there is more to this universe than we currently understand. The engineer in me wants to hurry up and figure it out so that I can apply it already! The sooner we get more cheap, clean, abundant, and safe energy (and get better at using it!) the better. Life is too short to waste it fighting over black sludge, you know?
So that's my story.
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