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Originally Posted by elhigh
I'd be curious to see what kind of mileage you get, cruising at 80. The generalisation is that we're out for maximum range; that drops off rapidly when you keep the speed up.
I might touch 70 or so on my commute home, but that's on a downhill and feathering the throttle to keep out of regen. It would also be an interesting math question to see where the dollars fall: if time is money, is speed economical? At how many dollars per hour does more speed equal a savings?
I would need more/better instrumentation to record instant and average speeds and log those against fuel economy to be able to answer those.
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If im running late always a morning issue due to traffic and single dad life issues. my mileage at 75 is dropped from 37avg. to a 31 0r 32 so speed has high cost. Ive still not procured the next larger diameter drive tire yet because at times I get clutch slippage during hard first gear pull outs. but think it would make a good difference at 75.