1 year $828 Saved - Fuel Economy, Hypermiling, EcoModding News and Forum

night9 · 07-30-2013, 03:54 PM

Its been 1 year of logging my fuel consumption. I estimate that I've saved $828 in gas compared to the EPA combined rating of our old vehicle. Its a great feeling knowing I've saved some money.

When in reality it may actually be more. We were getting 16mpg on a regular basis out of that car not the 20mpg combined rating I'm using.

This isn't even counting the money we saved on not having to repaire the old car. It need a new wheel barring, A/C system was on it way out, the car needed tires and it also had almost 100,000 miles.

Daox · 07-30-2013, 04:13 PM

Congrats. Thats a pretty decent chunk o cash.

MetroMPG · 07-30-2013, 05:11 PM

Remind us what was the old car, and I assume you're comparing to the Elantra?

PS: congrats!

Frank Lee · 07-30-2013, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by night9

This isn't even counting the money we saved on not having to repaire the old car. It need a new wheel barring, A/C system was on it way out, the car needed tires and it also had almost 100,000 miles.

The gas savings is all well and good, but you didn't include the cost of the new car either.

As far as the costs of repairing the old car, I could have kept it on the road for nearly nothing. Those maintenance items look cheap and easy to complete.

RustyLugNut · 07-30-2013, 06:11 PM

One way to make it more fun is to put aside hard monies for your projected fuel needs for the year. If you can undercut that budget, use the leftover monies as a reward! My family has done well in conserving, not just economizing. They did so well last year that we spent 10 days cruising the Caribbean.

night9 · 07-30-2013, 06:49 PM

The old car was a 2006 Nissan Murano. We were still making the same monthly payment as we are now. The elantra has easily saved us $1600 in gas over the last two years since we made the switch. I only tracked the gas usage for a year. Then add in $1000 for tires and odds and ends for parts.

It just goes to show making the change to a more efficent car can save you in the long run.

mikeyjd · 07-30-2013, 07:31 PM

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It just goes to show making the change to a more efficent car can save you in the long run.

Imagine if you switched to a geo metro ^

night9 · 07-31-2013, 02:31 PM

Thats true, an even more efficient car would help with the savings. In reality just having manual transmission would help. I am constantly wishing I could EOC. I have one particular route that I can coast for almost a mile and EOC would be a huge benefit. The only down side is that the elantra is not my car and my girlfriend can't as of yet drive stick. She hates driving!!!!! so I drive us everywhere.

I'm waiting till after I've sold my jeep to buy my self an eco ride The jeep is in the process of getting a freshening up and I don't drive it much any more. I am interested in the 2014 mitubishi mirage as option but I want to test drive one first.

I feel my other cheaper option is to build a cvic with lean burn and areo mods but I'm weighing time vs money.

mikeyjd · 07-31-2013, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by night9

Thats true, an even more efficient car would help with the savings. In reality just having manual transmission would help. I am constantly wishing I could EOC. I have one particular route that I can coast for almost a mile and EOC would be a huge benefit. The only down side is that the elantra is not my car and my girlfriend can't as of yet drive stick. She hates driving!!!!! so I drive us everywhere.

I'm waiting till after I've sold my jeep to buy my self an eco ride The jeep is in the process of getting a freshening up and I don't drive it much any more. I am interested in the 2014 mitubishi mirage as option but I want to test drive one first.

I feel my other cheaper option is to build a cvic with lean burn and areo mods but I'm weighing time vs money.

So if you do most of the driving get a stick for sure, let her learn if she wants to. Those new Mirages should be very nice and I expect will get 60-70mpg with a hypermiler behind the wheel. There are allot of good older options if saving money is your prerogative. Honda does make some of the nicer older econoboxes. A 2000-06 Honda Insight is the premier lean burn car if you wanted to go all out and only needed to be able to transport 2 people at a time.