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I figure at 10% FE gains at $4/gallon and 20,000 miles a year you'll save about $144/year. But you seem maybe to drive more than 20K a year and gas prices are going up. Treated well, your pack may well give you back all its cost over its life. Your hypermiling will absorb the rest of the cost soon enough. I'm grateful you shared so much of your process and information. It has helped me with mine. You have to love what you drive. And you have to love modding to do mods like this. Cool.
[EDIT: And this summer your savings will be amplified. I bet to break 70mpg in three tank or 90 day averages. You may get $200 a year in savings, which would greatly reduce the amount of time for payback.]
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.
Last edited by California98Civic; 03-25-2012 at 01:35 PM..
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