The virus cut my fuel use...by over 90%

[Vman455]

It's a ghost town here too, but yesterday I walked through campus. Mostly empty save for the quad, where there were easily 100+ students in clumps and groups.

The past three weeks I've taken the car out once a week for a 30-40 mile highway drive to warm everything up and circulate fluids. At this rate I won't need to fill up for 4 months.

[redpoint5]

I was in PDX traffic at rush hour Monday. It was like I was there at midnight. Smooth sailing. Held my speed to 5 over. Very relaxing.

[atomicradish]

I have been temporarily laid off from my main job so what was once part-time income driving for Uber and Doordash has quickly become my main income. I've been driving more than ever racking up 50 - 100 miles a day. Traffic is virtually non-existent and a lot of people seem to just be Sunday Driving/Cruising around aside from the obvious delivery drivers.

Even though gas is going down in price, I have a renewed incentive to Ecodrive so here I am back at Ecomodder more than a decade after I first joined. I'm finding my Honda Accord to be fairly difficult to hypermile compared to other cars I used to own even with this reduced traffic. The college town I live near is very congested with lots of lights and pedestrians and we don't have any limited access freeways that are convenient for daily driving. I feel like I will have hit the holy grail if I can manage 30 MPG combined and 35 seems impossible.

Might be time to just buy a Prius.

[herektir]

No change for me in miles driven since I work Ems. 1100 odd miles a month work commute.

[elhigh]

My fuel use is up a bit. I'm driving my truck while my wife is WFH. She prefers the car. She doesn't go anywhere though, so the car goes out about twice a week.

That said, the truck's economy is improving. In other circumstances the truck might go weeks between trips and its fuel just evaporate without having done any work. Its last fill included some distance with a loaded trailer and idling for a half hour to resuscitate a dead box truck. So that probably would have been a very good tank if it hadn't had those detriments.

[Tahoe_Hybrid]

Originally Posted by MeteorGray

Can not a 120vac or 240vac charger keep the batteries safely charged?

it's like 500$ for a tool to tap into the 300+vDC battery circuit..

[MeteorGray]

Oops, pardon my obtuseness.

[MHR1294]

I'm managing to average 23.8-24km/l (67mpg imp) when I do go out to the shops (around 10 mile trip) simply because there's no traffic. My normal fuel consumption average is about 18km/l (51mpg imp) so I'm pretty happy with that result.

[skyking]

I was laid up recovering from shoulder surgery till June 1. My wife has been working exclusively from home since March.
Now I have a retirement job with a 1 ton work truck that I bring home. My beetle just sits, which is difficult to take sometimes. I was pretty much forced to put a new set of tires on it, and while they worked on it I estimated I had 30% brakes left. It will probably last me 5 years
I could park the work truck at the shop, 12 miles away.
My ecomodding car days are really over. Now I look forward to RV travel in our retirement, and what I can do there.

[Joggernot]

Originally Posted by skyking

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My ecomodding car days are really over. Now I look forward to RV travel in our retirement, and what I can do there.

My friends who are Winter Texans tell me they can save a couple hundred dollars in gas just by waiting for a north wind to bring them down and a south wind to take them back. These are motor homes pulling a vehicle.