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Old 06-29-2011, 08:30 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Location: Greater Chicago
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RAV4 - '16 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Limited
90 day: 35.26 mpg (US)
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I found out what's killing me. Slow-moving traffic is fine (it's easy to keep a huge following distance--on one leg I only had to stop twice). However, bumper-to-bumper ruins it for several reasons. One, the car loves to try to do "battery crawl" (which is exactly what I don't want). Two, huge following distances don't really help because if you're lucky the traffic moves three feet each time. Three, I always hit these areas with a low traction battery so the engine keeps turning on.

ARGH!
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