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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Good luck, I have no great insight to share for your project.
Would it be feasible to use a different vehicle pulling a trailer that contains your cargo?
26 MPG is pretty good considering the size of vehicle. To spend half as much on fuel you'd need to double efficiency. I'd be looking for ways to go electric if that's at all possible, since in my market it's about 1/3rd the cost per mile driven, and no oil changes.
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Hi
I have thought of different vehicles or thought about using different vehicles to get better overall MPGs but I haven't been able to find anything that would work or could work
One idea I had was used my Volkswagen Jetta station wagon and set that up to tow a 6x12 trailer ....
Theoretically the 6x12 trailer would be able to hold everything I needed for the Run and empty the Jetta will get or can get upwards of 53 miles per gallon which I managed to do on numerous long-distance highway runs back when I was using the car as my main delivery vehicle ... I don't know what it would get pulling a trailer which I guess might weigh 15 to 1600 lb I really don't know how heavy a 6x12 enclosed trail would be not to mention I would have to fill it with the bread I'll have to see if I can figure that out I do have some paperwork somewhere that I kept track of how many trays of bred I would carry so that might be able to provide some insight into how much weight I'm physically moving
I do have a minivan which is set up to tow but I don't think that would actually be any good because the most I've been able to get out of the minivan miles per gallon wise is about 24 so without pulling the trailer it's getting 24 so pulling a trailer would make it go down somewhat so that's not even as good as the Sprinter van gets empty ....
I'm trying to think of other vehicles which may be competitive miles per gallon wise empty but I really can't think of anything off the top of my head and on the other hand I already have the Sprinter van so there's that also ....
Good idea though as far as finding an alternate vehicle and I'll still keep that in the back of my head but I haven't really been able to think of any other than maybe the Jetta pulling a trailer but right now my Jetta needs a head gasket and of course if I did all that I would have to also set it up to tow meaning the trailer hitch would have to be put on there Etc and technically I don't think USA jettas are rated to pull anything but for some reason European jettas think are supposedly good for maybe 3,500 lb?