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Originally Posted by Phase
The first half of the trip from Portland metro to eastern Oregon blue blue mountains was into a headwind. I was getting in the 40s for mpg that way, not to mention going up in elevation. The wind change direction once I made it over the mountain pass. When I did the trip in June with a slight tail wind the whole way, I got almost 700 miles of range out of the tank. The very high mpg I was getting the other day was only a short flat section from la grande to baker city Oregon. Can’t really track much with the mpg and all the mountain passes the rest of the way
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Yeah, 'conditions' can make all the difference. 'Spirit' has done over 900-miles on a tank, on three different outings.
Temperatures, topography, velocity, curves, wind, precipitation, corridor-effect, etc., can all conspire to produce 'outlier', 'back-swan' mpg. A laboratory is the only place we can definitively determine exact performance.
