How much gas money have you saved via ecomodding?
 

So far, taken from the data in the Garage, I have saved $3355.27 over the 127,670 miles I have travelled on the original engine since I started installing aeromods. This, combined with $1932.73 saved over the 57,285 miles I have travelled with the lean burn engine installed 2 years ago, comes to a total of $5288.00 saved over 184,955 miles of driving with aeromods over a 6 year period. Not a bad return for $400 invested in aeromods.

By way of a rough estimat I have saved $1160.07 over 33382 miles. The way I have estimated that number is 702 gallons used at 47.74 mpg life time average, 1043.2 gallons at EPA 32 mpg. so 1043 - 702 = 341 gallons saved at aprox $3.40/gallon. I suspect that as much as half is due to grill blocks, under tray and hubcaps and half is due to hypermilling. My objective is to follow in your foot steps and install a boat tail and other aero improvements so that I can get to 3.3L/100km or 71 mpg without as much hyper mileing. my investment is around $300 to date. :)
I have an other way of thinking about this and it goes like this; the average vehicle gets around 22 mpg I get 47 mpg a differance of 25mpg so 33382 miles at 25 mpg is 1335.28 gallons at $3.40/gal is $4539.95 not spent on fuel. Which means that it is money I can spend on future areo mods and still be no wears off than the average driver.;)

Roughly $750 over roughly 12,300 miles during the last 9 months. I was a hypermiler for a couple years before ecomodding, but I did not keep track. I averaged only 3-5 mpg over EPA before joining this site late last winter.

According to my garage entry, I have the following:

Total miles traveled: 41328.4
Total saved: $1851.69

All of my eco-mods have paid for themselves, and I have saved enough to invest in my planned ecomods. Some say that you may be disappointed if you shoot specifically for a return on investment with regard to ecomods, but I am satisfied with what I have done. Perversely, high gas prices have driven my savings upward.

$126.49 Saved

According to my fuel log, $1667.07 saved over 35613.6 miles. Closing in on 50% over EPA combined with my lifetime average. :)

No way I could put a number on money saved.

1968, drove my 59 Austin Healey Sprite to school on $1.25 a week allowance. 33 MPG=1 cent a mile in fuel. Later had some 63-67 Valients and Dodge Darts mid to high 20s for MPG.

I learned to drive economically from Pop who hypermiled his B17 to conserve fuel in case it was leaking out from battle damage. Took him 3 planes to finish his 30 mission tour and survive. He used to put water in the air cleaner of our 1950 Dodge, his idea of a primitive water injection.

In the 70s I tried to start my own business and started rebuilding collision damaged cars. My favorites were the early 70s Toyota Corollas, especially the SR5 versions with the 5 speed transmission. Pushrod hemi 1.5 liter, one sweet little engine and about 35 MPG average. Bought a 77 Accord the first year they made them. Pop drove it down US1in the Florida keys working for the American Cancer Society. He averaged 39.5 MPG in the Accord which had a 1.5 liter engine and weighed about the same as my 94 VX.

Last car I rebuilt before we closed the shop was a 1973 Alfa Romeo GTV. 2 liter 138 HP and 2080 pounds. What a machine. I drove it 100k miles then sold it for more than I paid for it wrecked. Hit in the rear, no parts just some Kansas Jack (early frame machine) work and some bondo and paint.

Bought a BMW 2002 for $300 once. A 1971 model. Found $900 in receipts in the trunk for work done in the previous 3 months. All the cars I bought and fixed, I drove long enough to make sure they were running perfect and then sold them for a profit, but could not make enough money to cover the shop expenses, so I moved to the Florida Keys and went to work for a Mercedes Dealer in Marathon. Later I went to Houston Texas and finally sold the old Alfa and bought a brand new Honda CRX 1.5 for $7k, serial number 1018, built in July of 83. Left Houston for the DC area and after 50k miles I sold the CRX for $5k. Averaged 44 MPG in the CRX for the whole time and I was not trying to hypermile just drove fairly conservatively.

Money was tight in the MB dealership in DC and I left for my home town of Hampton VA to work at the dealership there, still driving the CRX. Later I got another job at a Nissan Z car specialty shop. They were going under and I bought the business and ran it for 14 years. The 76 Z car I built got close to 28 MPG and ran like a scalded cat, flew around corners with turbo rims and a high compression engine, close to 85 MPH at 3k RPM with the .75 OD 83 5 speed anda 3.54 rear end. I started buying Altimas 93-97 models and rebuilt them, usually around 32 MPG but in most cases I made $2500 per car after all fuel and other costs were figured into the cost to fix. Generally I could put a 5000 mile Altima on the Road for $7500 cost, half the price new.

When I sold the shop I drove one of the Altimas for a couple of years, then when I was pursuing my patent and fuel started to get ridiculous I bought the 94 VX with 27,492 miles and drove it until it had 62 k miles and sold it for $5k including a purchase by a friend who sold it back when he had to have back surgery. The VX averaged something like 55 MPG, best tank was 68. Bought a 2002 Insight CVT and drove it close to 30k miles and averaged close to 67 MPG in it.

A year and a half ago I started riding bikes again, maybe 13k miles in that time. Now I drive a 99 Max, maybe a tank of fuel a month and the rest is riding bikes. 84 MPG on the CBR250R and close to 60 on the Vulcan 500. The two Rebels I had earlier did 75-80MPG.

I have driven close to 800k miles over the decades maybe more. Had it been in any average gas mileage vehicle the fuel cost would probably have been double what I spent. The rebuilt cars were probably driven 200k miles basically for free.

I would guess the total fuel consumed over the last 4 decades would probably be in the range of say 25,000 gallons with about that saved. No way I could figure it exactly but at today's prices the savings in money spend would easily go beyond $100k. With interest earned it would have paid me to cost of land and material to buy the house we presently live in and have never owned any money on since we sold the house it replaced 7 years ago.

While it may not be exactly the answer to your question Basjoos, I have been driving for mileage since I first started driving, since before the EPA had mileage figures to use in any calculation.

regards
Mech

Per my fuel log:
Total miles traveled: 78577
Total saved: $3814.47
This is over a little more than 3 years. Since I paid $4200 for the car, I have almost paid for it in savings. Mods have been $75 or so.

Using my mpg (actual and EPA) and the distance traveled, I have saved 346,24 USD while traveling 7035 miles. If I extrapolate this, I shall be able to save approx. 1200 USD per year. And this without any mods, only by driving techniques and watching the Scangauge.

Nice :-)

So long,

tinduck

Total miles traveled: 26582.8
Total saved: $1016.81

Other than tires (which I would have bought anyways) I've got about $120 in mods, the most expensive being the Ultra-gauge.

Does buying the motorcycle count as gas saved in the truck?

Money saved due to "ecomods"- who knows? Money saved due to bicycling, walking, living close to work, doing my own tuning, maintenance, and repair, and choosing cheap/free yet fuel efficient vehicles... LOTS.

Saving fuel and time
 

I think, when driving in highway speeds it's easier to drive close or a bit over the speed limit with highly FE car. When you know that the car won't eat you alive at the pump.

Not exactly an answer to Basjoos' question, but...

I saved well over $4000 driving my Civic since its purchase, as compared with what I would have spent driving my previous daily driver ('89 Volvo 240 wagon). I posted that in Aug. 2011, after driving the Civic nearly 3 years.
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ars-18611.html

this is an interesting one..

the iS has saved money on almost every tank, BUT that money has gone on servicing and repairs.

How much of that is down to wear and tear, vs hypermiling, I dont know

Brucepick, now keep a running tally of when or how long it will be before the hypermiling of the Civic alone will pay for the Civic! It'll take me about a decade. But I have already had the car for a decade...

Here is a total from all my fuel logs:

Car ---- Miles -- $ Saved
Prius -- 46430 - $2668.51
Paseo - 28655 - $1615.17
Aveo -- 2096 -- $162.10
Matrix - 68559 - $4847.86
Total - 145740 - $9293.64

$2,403.40 from this car.

Aside from normal wear and tear items I've spent less then $25 modding the car.

It's because it's a Bimmer. :D

I've saved very little from hypermiling even though my average fuel mileage has improved from 37 mpg to 45 mpg. Why? Because my fuel is so cheap.

However, I save $2000 annually by making my own biodiesel.

Cool question. I'll assume a gas price of $3.89 since it jumps around so much.

I drove about 7,000 miles before I started recording my mileage in Excel, so those miles will have to be forgotten for now.

Excel has me at about 10,000 miles since July of 2010. I used 20 mpg (combined EPA) as baseline, and estimated my average over that time to be 23.5. I started my log on here after my personal Excel log.


Long story short, about 74 gallons of fuel or about $288 in 16 months.

Edit: I should clarify that my only 'eco mod' is a bed cover. The rest is just hypermiling.

I too have done this successfully.

I simply moved closer to my job.

I can now bike or walk, and my car sits for weeks at a time.

I have probably saved thousands on fuel, and avoided tons of pollution in the air as well.

The amount of money i have spent on aeromods ( belly pan material, rivets, aluminum, bolts, washers etc) , as well as a SuperMID display, will never be paid for, but hey its a hobby !

So the amount I have saved to eco / aero mods ?

Maybe $ 5 - $ 6 in the last five years. :thumbup:

Lifetime according to the garage is $1617.76. that counts in my first 55,000 non hypermiling miles. the last 40,000 miles is when I started hypermiling has saved me ~$800 :). so all my mods have paid for them selves!

Comparing to EPA doesn't measure how much ecomods are saving you unless you were getting exactly EPA before.

Or if you can compare your vehicle to a sampling of similar vehicles, like you can by using a website like Fuelly.

My $800 saved is compared from my original MPG.

I was getting EPA(25mpg) before I came here. My first fuel log(26.05mpg) had a little hypermiling in it.

According to my log, I've saved $879 over 13,000 miles. That means I've paid for the car, MPGuino, and most of the mods I've done so far. Of course that doesn't include the trips that I decided not to take or combined with others, any performance mods that I may have decided to make, track days I WAS looking into but have decided not to,...

Total fills: 31
Average cost per gallon: $3.45
Average cost per fill: $27.19
Average cost per mile: $0.06Total gallons used: 247.09
Total miles traveled: 13871
Total cost: $852.46
Total saved: 286.41 gallons
Total saved: $988.11
Average tank distance: 447.45

but this is not really accurate (to me) because the first mod i did was to buy a more FE car and stop driving my 15mpg truck. so I am actually about $2800 saved is fuel alone. And minus that price of the car. I should break even about the 52 week mark.

*side note* the info from the garage above says that i have saved more $$$ in fuel than i my cost....

:thumbup:

To be fair its got a trackday and a european roadtrip under it's belt..

needs a Handbrake backplate and 2 tyres for MOT minimum..:o

I'm using about 1L/100km less, so that's 200-250 L less yearly.
That's 270 to 337.5 euro less on gas yearly, at current prices.

That's not a lot, and it's the result of the law of diminishing returns when you start out with a fairly fuel efficient car.


Given the total cost of motoring, that's peanuts (currently 5% on a 10 year depreciation period), and it's completely eaten up by the increase in fuel price since 2009.


A Scangauge costs half that; the more aerodynamic rims cost about as much if I subtract the LRR tires that came with them.

EPA Rating (% over): 28 (90.8571%)
Total fills: 22
Average cost per gallon: $3.52
Average cost per fill: $25.19
Average cost per mile: $0.07Total gallons used: 157.39
Total miles traveled: 7682.7
Total cost: $554
Total saved: 117 gallons
Total saved: $411.84
Average tank distance: 349.21


For me, it wasn't just savings in gas money with this car. I sold my 2002 Accord in February, that I got about 21 mpg in, for my 95 civic ex. I calculated how much I've saved based on JUST the change in cars versus the miles driven since I started logging my trips (excluding hypermiling and assuming 21 mpg for the accord and 28 mpg for the civic) and I came up with $321.94, or 91.46 gallons saved by driving the civic instead of the accord.

So, my REAL fuel savings is $733.78, and that's not including the $70/month of car insurance saved, which would be another $560 saved. I paid $1,500 for the car, so it's almost already paid for itself in almost 8 months.

Roughly $1,000 per 10,000 miles traveled.

But there are all sorts of ways to play with the numbers.

Now if only the rest of the world could do this, everyone would have more money and the world wouldn't be as polluted

I sold my v6 3L Ranger and bought my 1.9 L diesel Beetle which has 1/3 the fuel consumption of the Ranger, I generally fill up about once a month at $70 a tank so I save $140 per month x 24 months is $3,360 in the last two years since the beetle's ownership.

this is according to the fuel log here vs EPA ratings:

• Total saved: 39.4 gallons
• Total saved: $138.29

this is about 6 months of ownership :)