My first hypermile slash slipstreaming attempt best highway long distance mpg run ik of

well done!

 

unfair with a plug in, since you can manipulate mpg with electrons

 

If you were to not have the plug-in charged - like drive it as a PRIUS - what sort of economy do you get?

 

of course, it depends on your driving. i would say 65-70 around town, 60-65 on the highway at 55mph. all in moderate weather.
and i understand the prime to be even better

 

I don't mind sitting behind a trailer - here they'll often slow (more economical) for hills a little, just like hypermiling - but I put the RADAR Cruise on the furtherest setting with a truck - windscreens (and paint) are too expensive.

 

i do the same. love the trailers doing the speed limit, there aren't enough of them.

 

Yes - it was @bisco who has a Plug In - 2012.

I'm not sure that it's straight-forward to mod with more batteries - there has been some chat about it, but I haven't heard anyone doing it successfully. Probably better to trade-up to a PRIUS PRIME.

 

No - windscreens:

 

We don't recognize windscreens in the USA. Just like tyre, petrol, bonnet, and boot.

 

Yeah, don't slipstream a truck. Especially if its one that loads and unloads gravel from a quarry, you will regret it with a cracked windshield. The Prius gets good gas mileage without having to do that.

 

Gravel trucks with dual rear wheels can have a rock lodged between the 2 - when it is up to speed, it will fly off at approx the speed the truck is driving.

 

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That may have been what took out the side triangle window of my then-new Subaru. From a flatbed truck carrying oilfield-like equipment, passing me on I-70 west of Rifle, in Colorado. I saw two such rocks depart the truck and bounce on the lane divider, so I pulled right enough to avoid them.

Either that wasn't enough, or there was a third unseen rock, which struck the left side mirror and exploded the glass. Zillions of glass fragments everywhere inside the vehicle, in every interior vent and pocket and cupholder. Numerous blood seeps on the back of my left hand (several glass slivers fell out over the next few days), spouse had scratched cornea and a significant pit in one lens of her eyeglasses.

Had I not noticed and drifted right first, it would have hit the windshield instead of mirror, and then possibly impacted my upper chest. And I'd no longer be active on PC.

No ID of the offending truck. That was my first impetus to install dashcams.

I originally believed that the rocks fell off the flatbed, but later learned of this wedged-between-dualies problem.

 

I know it’s counter intuitive but use power mode in traffic. Drops your consumption figures by quite a lot.

 

really? What’s the theory behind why this is the case?