0000-00-00 832 9.018 92.26 ""
2009-02-18 550 9.854 $1.899 55.81 "Just purchased car, and first tank. Got 67mpg on highway, driving car home from Detroit. Followed semi's were possible to conserve fuel. Lot's of leg room for a small car and 6'2"" frame."
2009-03-16 646 9.176 $1.859 70.4 "Learning how to drive the car! (adjust the nut behind the wheel)."
2009-03-30 624 8.819 $2.099 70.76 "Radiator block, hot air intake, learning what the car likes."
2009-04-14 653 9.13 $2.039 71.52 "Tire pressure to 45 psi"
2009-04-29 677 8.975 $1.999 75.43 "Getting warmer! Tire pressure at 50 psi."
2009-10-02 761 9.366 $2.399 81.25 "Car sat all summer while working on under-body air smoothing panels. Coverage about 50%. Grid trickle charger for HV battery using Variac and full-wave bridge."
2009-10-19 764 9.508 $2.599 80.35 "Slowly adding more completed panels to under-body."
2009-11-04 764 9.986 $2.679 76.51 "Under-body coverage about 75%. Fall has arrived; getting colder."
2009-11-18 676 8.854 $2.599 76.35 "Temps in the 40's and windy."
2009-12-09 695 9.148 $2.569 75.97 "First snow and still windy. 75% radiator block."
2009-12-21 630 9.588 $2.549 65.71 "We've had some pretty cold days here. Started doing some coast down testing, so this cuts into mileage."
2010-01-06 568 9.139 $2.729 62.15 "More coast down testing. 80% radiator block. Roads very rough. Running at higher speed on smooth highway instead of slower and rougher back roads."
2010-01-18 580 8.678 $2.699 66.84 "It's amazing how the Insight mileage is affected by even small amounts of snow. If there are several inches, it's hard to maintain even 60 mpg."
2010-01-29 614 9.089 $2.599 67.55 ""
2010-02-11 626 9.621 $2.499 65.07 ""
2010-02-24 683 9.669 $2.659 70.64 "Back roads extremely buckled. Taking new route to avoid rough roads, but still many rough spots. More stops than old route, but way smoother overall."
2010-03-10 699 9.41 $2.759 74.28 ""
2010-03-31 753 9.875 $2.799 76.25 ""
2010-04-19 776 9.396 $2.829 82.59 ""
2010-05-05 775 9.102 $2.939 85.15 "Am able to start driving on old route again, since road surface irregularities are smoothing out again due to warmer temps."
2010-05-26 815 9.612 $2.559 84.79 "Had cold week with rain.
Finished up under-body panels before starting on tail. Coverage now about 90%. Everything is covered except second cat and muffler."
2010-10-13 796 9.548 $2.849 83.37 "New tail. Worked 4 months over summer to complete with ""rough"" finish. Will be sanded smooth next year. Some cold and windy days already. Almost forgot to mention that the 2/3 full gas tank sat for 4 months as well, and maybe this affected the mileage for this tank."
2010-11-02 768 9.879 $2.779 77.74 "Wow, we had a 50 mph storm day on 10-26-10, with pounding rain and near blind driving. Tail held-up, but mpg suffered that day. Regen also maxed out any time the brakes were just touched, but then cleared up on the way home after drying."
2010-11-16 791 9.935 $2.959 79.62 "About 1/2 the days this tank were windy (over 5mph). Still doing coast down tests if roads are dry. New tail seems to be doing fine, and has a brushed coat of apple red paint to cover Bondo for winter. Some people get way too close when following the car!"
2010-12-03 752 9.529 $2.799 78.92 ""
2010-12-17 636 9.679 $2.949 65.71 ""
2011-01-07 675 9.148 $3.079 73.79 ""
2011-01-20 621 8.942 $3.079 69.45 ""
2011-02-04 626 9.202 $3.149 68.03 "Constructed Meanwell power supply (Dabrowski design) to replace Variac. Auto-transformer did not have voltage isolation when tires were wet from road salt."
2011-02-22 659 8.945 $3.159 73.67 "Stopped doing coast-down tests since GPS unit does not give enough data to really calculate Cd properly.

Added MIMA-CL to car during weekend with temps in 20's."
2011-03-09 729 9.251 $3.499 78.8 ""
2011-03-25 778 9.146 $3.529 85.06 ""
2011-04-12 794 9.655 $3.849 82.24 "Very cold temps for this time of year. Many rain days."
2011-04-29 783 8.767 $3.999 89.31 "Started using more of the HV battery to/from work with MIMA-CL. Grid charge battery at night. Have a hard time getting the SOC to reboot properly with the key-on-pos-recal method by Uhtrinity."
2011-05-19 887 9.198 $3.899 96.43 "Using MIMA-CL and grid charging at night. IMA battery looses about 10 volts after grid charging when it's really hot (90F and above)."
2011-06-02 857 9.24 $3.799 92.75 "As best as I can tell from photo's taken, the tail was removed from the car around June 5th or so, to finish smoothing. It was found to be extremely water-logged with trapped water running out from the fiber-glass on the underside of the tail."
2011-06-17 897 9.845 $3.599 91.11 "This is the first summer that I am able to drive the car throughout the warmer months.

Two summers ago, I was working on smoothing the under side of the car, and last year it was making the tail extension.

Warmer weather, here we come!"
2011-07-13 974 8.999 $3.659 108.23 "The dash (FCD) showed 103mpg for this tank.
We've had a lot of hot days this summer. Much more than usual. Really helps MPG numbers.
Had several 33 miles runs showing 128mpg after arriving home from work."
2011-08-03 999 9.353 $3.699 106.81 "Over 1000 miles on less than 10 gallons!!!
Made good use of the car, MIMA-CL, and the newly installed FAS (several days old). Mostly key-off FAS until the official board was installed.
The FCD showed 110mpg."
2011-08-30 1073 9.352 $3.659 114.73 "Coasting really saves fuel. There are probably 10 places on the way home where one can coast for 10 seconds or more."
2011-09-21 998 9.428 $3.599 105.85 "Fourth 1000 mile tank.
From the dates on photo's, it appears that the tail was put back on the car on 09-25-11."
2011-10-21 1030 9.928 $3.359 103.75 "Fifth 1000 mile tank."
2011-11-03 1000 9.455 $3.349 105.76 "Sixth 1000 mile tank."
2011-11-23 875 9.28 $3.259 94.29 "Colder weather now, lowers the MPG's."
2011-12-13 822 9.096 $3.189 90.37 "Middle of December now."
2012-01-05 796 8.609 $3.359 92.46 ""
2012-01-24 737 8.944 $3.279 82.4 ""
2012-02-14 816 9.535 $3.399 85.58 ""
2012-03-06 875 9.65 $3.699 90.67 ""
2012-03-30 1011 9.33 $3.939 108.36 "First 1000 mile tank."
2012-05-14 942 9.982 $3.689 94.37 "Car is involved in accident. Car driven between auto-body shop and alignment shop, so mileage way down.

Underbody panels removed for alignment, and still not back on since there are rusted fasteners that broke off in mounting holes. Need to fix."
2012-06-06 1027 9.588 $3.539 107.11 "Second 1000 mile tank."
2012-06-27 1078 9.536 $3.479 113.05 "Third 1000 mile tank."
2012-07-19 1157 9.824 $3.399 117.77 "A lot of EOC and hot summer temperatures.

The battery pack lost about 40% of it's capacity due to normal use in high temps. Now only use it for EOC coasting.

Word to wise; spare the battery in the summer."
2012-08-14 1090 9.462 $3.879 115.2 "Ordered new (used) battery sticks for battery pack reconditioning."
2012-09-15 1079 9.903 $3.899 108.96 "Replaced one stick in pack and put battery back in car."
2012-10-08 1018 9.993 $3.799 101.87 "Replaced battery stick, while it has ""capacity"" when measured on test bench, has high internal leakage and self discharges very quickly.

Word to wise: test sticks for self discharge before putting in pack."
2012-10-26 959 10.154 $3.429 94.45 ""
2012-11-09 827 8.958 $3.359 92.32 ""
2012-11-28 748 9.065 $3.359 82.52 "4 new Potenza tires; mileage dropped from 88 to 82mpg."
2012-12-13 754 9.033 83.47 ""
2013-01-08 745 9.645 77.24 "Snow, snow, snow.

The weather is in a pattern of snowing, two days of no snow, the roads just about get clear again, ... and then it snows."
2013-01-22 676 8.935 75.66 ""
2013-02-05 664 9.686 68.55 ""
2013-02-18 700 9.701 72.16 "Same snow pattern for well over one month now.

Can't count the number of times I've been forced on the highway due to extremely bumpy, or plain impassable back-roads this winter."
2013-03-04 702 9.535 73.62 ""
2013-03-19 680 9.794 69.43 ""
2013-04-05 811 9.772 82.99 ""
2013-04-23 777 9.252 83.98 ""
2013-05-13 935 9.978 93.71 ""
2013-05-28 988 10.13 97.53 ""
2013-06-18 1045 9.788 106.76 ""
2013-07-10 1013 9.175 110.41 ""
2013-07-31 1075 9.78 109.92 ""
2013-08-23 1061 10.175 104.28 ""
2013-09-16 976 9.3 104.95 ""
2013-10-07 902 9.291 97.08 ""
2013-10-23 832 9.018 92.26 ""
2013-11-08 782 9.088 86.05 ""
2013-11-25 764 9.279 82.34 ""
2013-12-12 672 8.914 75.39 ""
2013-12-23 671 9.335 71.88 ""
2014-01-14 609 8.788 69.3 ""
2014-01-30 601 8.899 67.54 "Wow, this winter is cold, and it just keeps going. And it seems like snow every 3 days."
2014-02-12 679 9.571 70.94 ""
2014-02-25 690 9.164 75.29 ""
2014-03-14 745 9.094 81.92 ""
2014-04-02 819 8.809 92.97 ""