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Old 04-30-2018, 03:09 PM   #84 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

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I pulled out my kill-a-watt and plan to do a new estimate of my MGPe on the bike. When I first built it I did a calculation that was more than 3600 MPGe. But I rode it very differently than I have since, and generally. So I want to creat a better more accurate number. I am guessing it will be between 600 MPGe and 1000 MPGe. But we will see. To reduce my own bias, I'll collect the data for two months: total miles and total power consumed. I ride this bike every week, often almost every day. So, it will be hard for me to break habit over a long period of time.

I will also measure both with the onboard dash readout and my kill-a-watt. That way I can compare what the bike uses and total power needed to provide what the bike needs.

Today, my EM bike log says I have ridden a total 4536 miles since June 10, 2015.
Have to restart this test at 4749 miles and 0 kwh because of hardware and data tracking errors.
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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.



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