Thanks everyone for my best instant MPG and average MPG!!!

[jalmir]

Today we (by "we" I mean the whole family : me, the wife, our 4 months old baby girl and the parents in-laws) went to a national park not too far from Montreal (Mont-Tremblant). Total round trip was 345.2 km (from the gaz station a few km away from the house).

This includes 12-13km of city driving and 50km (roughly) inside the park itself (this includes 5km of gravel road inside that 50km).

So my average MPG was 43.5 (5.4l/100km) and the best instant MPG I got was on a concrete paved section : 47 MPG (5.0l/100km)

I was quite happy with the results, I only used light P&G without EOC, "driving with load" as much as possible and on the highway I tried to maintain a speed above 65km/h (40mph) but not faster than 90km/h (55mph) ... though driving slowly seems to make people angry! (on 2 different stretch of highway, 3 & 4 lanes, 2 different guys passed me and then cut me off, had to brake and swerve right to avoid collision!!! )

[Weather Spotter]

Good work!

just smile at the idiots who pass, it makes your day better and theirs better too.

[jalmir]

Thanks!

Forgot to mention, my fill this morning was 46.78L ... that's the average fill when I wait until the fuel light comes on!

So with a 46.5L average fill I calculated that I could do over 860km (534 miles) with one tank if I was able to maintain my average FE of 5.4l/100km! I had to do the maths 5 times to be sure, I couldn't believe it and thought I messed up the calculations!!!

[Weather Spotter]

If I keep my tank average of 73.6 MPG I can get 978 miles, I want 1000

[jalmir]

congrats, but I'll start with my 47 MPG and go from there ... I can only dream of 73+ MPG! lol

[Weather Spotter]

make your car look like mine and drive like i do

[jalmir]

oh well ... today was back to work and my MPG went down as I expected. I also realized that a section of highway I HAVE to use every day has a lot more resistance than usual. When on this stretch of highway my instant MPG goes down a few points and goes back up when I get out!

So now my average FE on this tank is 5.7l/100km or 41 MPG.

I already bought a flip switch and I'm looking at the diagrams to install it and start to EOC a bit!

[Neen]

Some highways require a minimum maintained speed limit. Please respect and abide if there are minimums as highways are shared commodities by all travelers and being significantly below the speed limit only makes the highway more dangerous.

Congrats on your results though!

[jalmir]

I know about minimum speeds on highways. I was always over that minimum. The guys that cut me off did so when I was coasting at around 80km/h (50 mph). I would only go slower on uphills, which had a special right lane for slow cars and big rigs.

I'm in the process of installing an EOC switch, hoping to get into the 50 mpg with it!