Vetter streamliner body kit

[sendler]

Originally Posted by 3-Wheeler

Sendler,

That mileage sounds way too low !!!!

Better get your odo checked. Nobody but you gets even close to that at any speed. The best I have actually SEEN was a really excellent diesel engine swap Insight with fully functional hybrid system who got 92 mpgUS at 45 mph over the road at the Green Grand Prix. Verified. No amount of body work will add 50-60% to the already slippery Insight.

[cvetter]

Well, the Vetter Streamliner Kit would be the best way to streamline the bike you describe.

[sendler]

Originally Posted by 3-Wheeler

In the summer, and traveling on a flat country road at 45 mph, the Insight can easily get over 100 mpg. I mean easily.

Are you using a MIMA and plugin charging every night? I see no "normal" owners on Fuelly getting within 35% of your numbers.
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[Weather Spotter]

take a look at my fuel logs here on EM. look at my 90 day average. I have an excel file with every fill up on my car.

[Weather Spotter]

sendler

why are you discrediting everything people say? should I doubt your first post's clams of MPG?

[sendler]

Here is a bigger cross section of pregen stick shift Insights showing a few fringe hypermilers over 70 mpgUS. The best I could get at 65 mph and while drafting was 68 mpgUS in the summer. PnG only serves to cremate your battery in a mild hybrid so I didn't do much of that. Most normal people get 57 mpg on the highway in a stick shift Insight. My geared but otherwise stock CBR250R is over 90 mpg for the same conditions and normal people get about 75.
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[Weather Spotter]

I think 3 wheeler is a bit past normal but thats not saying others could not get more if they tried.

[sendler]

I can see 60 mpg in your chart which is amazing for a Matrix but I wouldn't call it 75. That must be about 100% over EPA? Great job! I once got 134 mpg for 130 miles on the track at 45 mph using EOC but I don't go around calling my bike a 134 mpg bike. I have 140,000 miles in a stick shift Insight and have always driven it very carefully since day one. I have talked to tens of other people that have them on other forums. Nobody breaks 80 mpg in a stock Insight on any real road with other cars around. To say that they should all easily break 100 mpg is completely unrealistic.

[Weather Spotter]

How hard did you look? My best tank was 13.3 gallons (car was starting to stall due to low fuel and I coasted to a fuel pump) and 1005.1 miles . That equals 75.6 mpg or too a two digit number of 76mpg. If you looked at the graph the tallest bar is that tank. I was jaut starting pulse and glide so I hope to do better next summer.

[sendler]

Originally Posted by Weather Spotter

How hard did you look?

One tank does not an average make. What happened on this last tank? You have to fit a curve to several points to get an average that really means anything.