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Old 06-12-2014, 05:37 PM   #608 (permalink)
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lean burn

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Originally Posted by 3-Wheeler View Post
Hi Phil,

I have been noticing that same effect this year when going up hills. My fuel consumption this year is higher than last year when driving over the same hills to/from work.

I started paying more attention to speed, gearing, rpm's, engine load, and so on over these hills. This is the biggest bang-for-the-buck. See link below for details.

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...omy-29047.html

The Insight has lean burn, and keeping the car in this run mode over hills can sometimes be quite challenging.

Like you mentioned above about BSFC, I have been tackling hills, sometimes in a lower gear/more rpm, and the results seem to favor this over lugging the engine in a higher gear.

There does seem to be an "art" to driving efficiently. I've had the car now some five years, and still learning a bunch.

Jim.
The beauty of your on-board electronics is that you could take a day and just drive around with different scenarios,documenting as you go,then at your leisure,sit down and 'take it all in',constructing a map for different driving conditions.So sweet!
With my tank-mileage limitations it's hard to infer what the ramifications of a certain leg of a trip might have been.
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