Driving 20,000km a year with a 60 mpg car. 1 mpg fuel improvement= $15 saved/year, $75/5 years
Driving 20,000km a year with a 40 mpg car. 1 mpg fuel improvement= $35 saved/year, $175/5 years
Driving 20,000km a year with a 25 mpg car. 1 mpg fuel improvement= $87 saved/year, $435/5 years
Driving 20,000km a year with a 15 mpg car. 1 mpg fuel improvement= $258 saved/year, $1290/5 years
$1.15/L gas
If you drive a thirsty car you can save a lot, if you drive an economical car you would only save a bit. Driving habits and other free changes are good either way.
To get a financial benefit of riding a $1000 bicycle you would have to ride Roughly 10,000km before is saved you $1000/gas. Plus the maintenance for 10,000km would add $200 minimum. So You would have to ride at least 13,333km (8,300 miles) just to break even vs a 30mpg car. I have started riding more often and so far I have done about 200km commuting on my bike. By the end of summer I should have 1500km. It won’t pay for itself for a long time but it is my hobby too so it doesn’t have too. You could quite comfortably half the price and no. of km required.
A lot of us do modifications as a hobby, but if you have a 40 mpg car you have a very limited budget if you want to save money. This doesn’t account for mods that cause advanced wear on the engine/car. E.G stopping/starting car more frequently= need a new starter motor more frequently. If the starter motor costs $300 installed and you use it 5x more than normal the amount you might spend replacing it would never pay for the fuel savings you achieve.
I want to buy a scanguage 2 but my smart already gets 62mpg, the $220Cad price tag would never be worth it. $140Cad ultraguage is better but seemingly never in stock. I could get something like this for $70 cad
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Turb...08.4.11.FASVN3 It wouldn’t save me any money but it would at least pay for itself.