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Longest Coast
Just curious, what are some of your guys longest coasts?
I realized this the other day when my part of trip that goes into Cumberland I'm in neutral for 6 or 7 miles (I'll get an exact reading)
The terrain rises and falls, but overall it is a huge (11% grade) drop from the Eastern Continental Divide down into Cumberland itself. Half the time I put the car in gear just to keep control of the speed.
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11-13-2011, 03:26 PM
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I would say 1 mile. Then again, it's pretty flat where I live.
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11-13-2011, 03:35 PM
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Just curious, what are some of your guys longest coasts?
I realized this the other day when my part of trip that goes into Cumberland I'm in neutral for 6 or 7 miles (I'll get an exact reading)
The terrain rises and falls, but overall it is a huge (11% grade) drop from the Eastern Continental Divide down into Cumberland itself. Half the time I put the car in gear just to keep control of the speed.
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11-13-2011, 04:08 PM
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There's a mountain next to Mono Lake in California on highway 395 that it seems like you're coasting forever. I google mapped it and it looks like about 11-12 miles of coasting, might be 5-6, hard to tell on a 2-D picture. Made that trip I think 2 times, love watching my instant mpg go up to 120  |
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11-13-2011, 05:26 PM
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Only about 2 miles for me.
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11-13-2011, 05:35 PM
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How much fuel do you burn going back up?
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Obviously a lot more, and it's why my trips east always use less fuel than my trips west. It's also why I only started logging round trips instead of E/W.
But going up the mountain, I get about 17~20 mpg. Which works out to 35~40 mpg round trip. "Pulse and glide"  |
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11-13-2011, 06:39 PM
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Truckee, CA to Verdi, NV is 30+ miles with no more than ~3 pulses needed when there's traffic.
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11-13-2011, 08:39 PM
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I don't know for sure how long the coast is but it's loooong  . I live in the Rocky Mountains and the longest coast is when going over Highwood pass, the top of the pass is over 7000ft I would estimate the longest EOC is 5 - 10 miles. The most frequent long coast I encounter is about 3 miles long, and is quit steep, if I start at the top at 30 mph I can EOC to over 80 mph  before I have to brake for the 30mph zone at the bottom of the hill! Talk about a soap box derby! 
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11-13-2011, 09:34 PM
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I had really looong glides in the Coupe when I had that nice 40 mph perfect tailwind and got 69 mpg. Sadly I don't remember how long the p's and g's were.
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11-13-2011, 11:26 PM
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Here's one from the loneliest road in America, US Hwy 50, in central Nevada.
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Best flat drive 94.5 mpg for 10.1 mi
Longest tank 1033 km (642 mi) on 10.56 gal = 60.8 mpg
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