Hypermiling

[pseudobrit]

I was thinking of Astroglide, myself. Just to make it slip through the air better.

A million and one uses for the Lube™

 

[Roger1]

Ok, here is a mid-week update one how my milage is doing. I eyeballed the gas gauge, and it said about a 1/2 tank. The milage said roughly about 200 miles. I have an 11.9 gallon tank. Sooo, the eyeball guess it roughly 33-35 miles per gallon. Or, about where I get normally. So, when I fill up next week, I will do the math and see how it works out then

 

[twoodcc]

Ok, here is a mid-week update one how my milage is doing. I eyeballed the gas gauge, and it said about a 1/2 tank. The milage said roughly about 200 miles. I have an 11.9 gallon tank. Sooo, the eyeball guess it roughly 33-35 miles per gallon. Or, about where I get normally. So, when I fill up next week, I will do the math and see how it works out then

you can't really go by your eyeball. i guess you can try to compare to other tanks, but you don't always fill up the same (not all gas pumps are the same)

 

[Roger1]

So here we are, fill up day. I put 10.154 gallons in my car. I put 400 miles on my car this week. Do the math, and we come up with.....39.39 miles per gallon. Or, what I normally get when I drive. So much for hypermiling.

Anyway, what I learned about hypermiling is this:
1. A lot of people get upset with me when I drive the speed limit.
2. They do stupid things, like passing me in no passing zones, passing me on side streets, etc.
3. Drafting behind semis is hard to do, when they are doing 70 mph in a 60 mph zone.
4. For the type of driving I do, which is mostly back roads, and a lot of short hops (one mile or less) hypermiling probably won't work.

 

[twoodcc]

So here we are, fill up day. I put 10.154 gallons in my car. I put 400 miles on my car this week. Do the math, and we come up with.....39.39 miles per gallon. Or, what I normally get when I drive. So much for hypermiling.

Anyway, what I learned about hypermiling is this:
1. A lot of people get upset with me when I drive the speed limit.
2. They do stupid things, like passing me in no passing zones, passing me on side streets, etc.
3. Drafting behind semis is hard to do, when they are doing 70 mph in a 60 mph zone.
4. For the type of driving I do, which is mostly back roads, and a lot of short hops (one mile or less) hypermiling probably won't work.

cool. well, i actually get better mpg with hypermiling because i drive a truck that's high off the ground, and is not very aerodynamic. with a car that already gets almost 40 mpg, you might can squeeze some extra miles out, but not that much most likely.

driving 70 mph might not hurt you very much, but it really kills me

 

[Abstract]

So here we are, fill up day. I put 10.154 gallons in my car. I put 400 miles on my car this week. Do the math, and we come up with.....39.39 miles per gallon. Or, what I normally get when I drive. So much for hypermiling.

Anyway, what I learned about hypermiling is this:
1. A lot of people get upset with me when I drive the speed limit.
2. They do stupid things, like passing me in no passing zones, passing me on side streets, etc.
3. Drafting behind semis is hard to do, when they are doing 70 mph in a 60 mph zone.
4. For the type of driving I do, which is mostly back roads, and a lot of short hops (one mile or less) hypermiling probably won't work.

You didn't really prove anything, though. All you did is prove that you're not good at hypermiling. You didn't prove that it doesn't work or isn't effective. Others proved that it does work. You just proved that you can't do it.

 

[SkyBell]

Hyundai Tiburon.

I've gotten more than 30mpg highway out of it, but I don't drive a lot, and the cost savings that I would get out of driving like grandma would be negligible. If I was filling up every day, things might be different, but I can go 2 to 3 weeks without filling up since I only have a 2 mile drive to work/school each day and the occasional grocery store run.

2 miles? Why don't you just ride a bike?

 

[Roger1]

cool. well, i actually get better mpg with hypermiling because i drive a truck that's high off the ground, and is not very aerodynamic. with a car that already gets almost 40 mpg, you might can squeeze some extra miles out, but not that much most likely.

driving 70 mph might not hurt you very much, but it really kills me

At 70-75 mph, on the highway, I get 40-43 MPG (I went out of town a few weeks ago, that's what the milage was). When I tried the hypermiling, I didn't have much opportunity to draft much, because my normal highway driving is once every 2 weeks. This week was the exception,, because I did highway driving 3 times in one week. I also did the highway driving at 55-60 MPH. I wonder if that made a difference.
However, I also did a LOT of short hop driving for work (1-2 miles). I don't like doing that, but its required for the job. I'm wondering if that played into affecting my milage.

 

[yg17]

2 miles? Why don't you just ride a bike?

Because I'm lazy.

 

[savar]

They're power mirrors. It would take too much energy to take them off. At least as much as it would to wash the car

Anyway, I started this morning, just trying to do the speed limit. It's amazing how many cars line up behind you doing 55 mph (in a 55 zone). It's difficult trying to stay at the speed limit while they are doing that.

Anywho, time to start work.

Power mirrors fold back too...or at least they should. That way if you were to brush by something and hit your mirror on it at slow speeds, the mirror would fold in instead of breaking off.

I have actually seen two cars driver's side mirrors hit each other like that and fold in on a narrow bridge.

 

[twoodcc]

At 70-75 mph, on the highway, I get 40-43 MPG (I went out of town a few weeks ago, that's what the milage was). When I tried the hypermiling, I didn't have much opportunity to draft much, because my normal highway driving is once every 2 weeks. This week was the exception,, because I did highway driving 3 times in one week. I also did the highway driving at 55-60 MPH. I wonder if that made a difference.
However, I also did a LOT of short hop driving for work (1-2 miles). I don't like doing that, but its required for the job. I'm wondering if that played into affecting my milage.

well like i said, going over 70 mph hurts me really bad b/c i'm in a truck. going fast for you, and you could do even better.

yeah, those short trips will kill your mileage

 

[Roger1]

You didn't really prove anything, though. All you did is prove that you're not good at hypermiling. You didn't prove that it doesn't work or isn't effective. Others proved that it does work. You just proved that you can't do it.

I don't doubt the fact other people can do it. I just wanted to see if I could do it, to save some money on gas. But I wasn't going to go the extremes that "real" hypermilers go to, because some of the stuff they do sounds pretty dangerous. So don't be confused this wasn't a scientific test to see if I could prove/disprove a theory. Just an attempt at improving my gas milage.