[jeff88]

Yeah, I plan to make a couple of mods like the crossbar delete and air up the tires. I like to get a couple of tanks in before I start doing such stuff though, gives me a better idea of the benefit I get from it.

I pretty much drove it exactly like you mentioned, except I kept it between 60-65 on the highway for the most part. I mostly just kept up with traffic, if not passed some people. Most of the battery power was in parking lots, the last stretch of road before the parking lot, going from red light to red light, or in through a neighborhood, like going home.

I could actually increase the avg. mpg as much as .3 from the street light outside my neighborhood to my house! And I always have plenty of battery power to do it. I come off the freeway (60ish) on to an expressway (50). Then have to make a left at the light. So between the highway driving charging the battery, then the regenerative braking from slowing down and/or stopping, I get enough to get home. Then in the morning when the engine goes on no matter what, it charges it back up.