Best cruising speed for highest MPG.

[Packofcrows]

Sorry off topic ;/

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

I can get 50 to 60 mpg with the Prius easily.

@Kaotic, right???? But he gets shieeeeeeet for mpg compared to what you'd think he should get. Not bad, but still not what you think a Prius 'should get.'



Buying my parents one though. Hoping for next year.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by Packofcrows

Sorry off topic ;/





@Kaotic, right???? But he gets shieeeeeeet for mpg compared to what you'd think he should get. Not bad, but still not what you think a Prius 'should get.'



Buying my parents one though. Hoping for next year.

Definitely wait for the 2016. The Prius will be resdesigned. More power and more hp.

Just don't keep it in power mode or smash on the gas pedal all day long, and you should get close to the 50 mpg combined rating.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Yeppers!
It would appear that "older" age + no record =

The older I get the more I think I less need the Get out of Jail card and need this one:

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

The older I get the more I think I less need the Get out of Jail card and need this one:

Oh damn, just when I thought I had you!

[ArgentoAtl]

Originally Posted by Decay107

Well, braking as little as humanly possible is one of the major tenets of hypermiling. Another is accelerating briskly to cruising speed (somewhere around 80% throttle)

"… accelerating briskly to cruising speed …" was so unintuitive to me that I have been trying to run down another reference for it, other than the Popular Mechanics one I found earlier in this thread. A wikipedia reference under "Energy-efficient driving" gave the following confirming link http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/07/te...save-fuel.html so I'm going to try it for a while.

Thanks, @Decay107

[billwot]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Yeppers!
It would appear that "older" age + no record =

Was stopped twice in my younger days at triple digits. (once in the AMX, once in my E-type) Got a severe "talking to" both times, but wasn't ticketed or arrested. (I got into a lot of trouble with that AMX)

[NOHOME]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Compared to the other cars I would have purchased instead, the 86 is my Prius, and I have told people that. It gets about twice the mileage of any other car I would considered owning as a DD.

Not to pick on you @NOHOME but I'm not sure I understand why its not possible to enjoy a sports car and be concerned with its fuel usage. They are not mutually exclusive. I track MPG as a measurement of "health". The fact that I average over 32MPG in almost 60K miles of driving is amazing to me. I would have never expected that, particularly given I in no form, manner shape or function come close to a hypermiler (if that's the right term).

Mind you, I don't race it on a track every day, or sit in city traffic, which I would expect to drag it down, but I am always the first off the light (sorry for the disbelievers but I've never been beaten by a soccer mom in a minivan) and consider every "Caution 25MPH Curve Ahead" sign as a challenge to better than double it.

Much of what I do in life tends to be in defiance of rationality. To me, owning a sports-car flies in the face of common sense, and the concept of caring about fuel use would never enter the picture.

[ashtray]

Originally Posted by babydriver

If you can get it under 250 lbs with the driver in it.

Shoot, I can barely get MYSELF under that!

[CB750F]

I have no clue what was written above... lazy, but I'll go for.... flat out!

[daiheadjai]

I've been using Torque app on long drives, and I think I agree that cruise control can be detrimental to MPG, particularly if there are lots of hills or changes in elevation.
I wonder if keeping the throttle at a constant percentage (i.e. I tend to cruse at ~21-24% throttle) is a better solution - but then once you climb a long hill, you find yourself doing 40mph on a highway, and realize you better speed up...

[NOHOME]

If you really want to max MPG, buy a vacuum gauge and dedicate yourself to going forward while keeping the vacuum reading as low as possible. These gauges used to be quite common for just this reason.

[Packofcrows]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Oh I know that is exactly what they are doing!
Sort of reverse profiling that works to our advantage.

Fortunately or Unfortunately, yes, some do that. Uncle is in CHP... He says some don't even tolerate 1mph/speed limit.

So drive safe my brothers.