Different kind of mileage challange

I normally keep the display on the HSI screen but on a recent trip I happened to be scrolling through the others and when on the 5 min average screen the data gave me an idea for a different kind of mileage games.

For those of us geographically challenged people that live at elevations which will keep us from being competitive with those at sea level for things like 60+ mpg tanks, etc. there would seem to be a whole category of big hill based challenges. I apologize in advance for the quality of the following snapshots but they should be enough to illustrate the idea.

Challenge 1 - Get the most number of full stacks of regen cars. The example below shows a simple case of single big hill. It should be trivially easy to reproduce the "score" below since all you need to do is depleat the battery on the way up and recharge it on the way down. In order to do better than this you would need to use up some of the battery on the way down to make room for additional recharge periods. So an overall very long steep hill with some short alternating uphill sections would be ideal.






Challenge 2 - Get all the bars on the the screen filled to the top. Since once again this should be easy to do with a long hill or a bit of patience, the tie breaker would be the person with the most regen cars in addition to all stacks showing 100mpg. In the example below I didn't think of the game until after the hill flattened out but it would have been fairly easy to take the downhill a bit slower to fill all 6 bars.

 

Awesome! I knew someone was up to it.

 

This is very dependent on the "hill" in question. For mild ones I agree with you. But some of "hills" around here are way to steep and long for this approach to apply. For some of them it's a challenge just to minimize the forced "B" mode and friction braking that happens after the battery gets full. These "hills" are not the kind you could ever consider coasting over. The rather mild pass I was on in the original example climbs from roughly 8000ft to over 11,000 feet over a few miles of very curvy roads. If you attempted to coast down without heavy regen, and engine or friction braking you would die a few turns from the top. And coasting up wouldn't even get you around the 1st turn (out of about 40).

The interesting point is that there are a number of different kinds of approaches that apply to different kinds road conditions. For example there are many threads with techniques on maximizing city mileage, and quite a few for gentle hill highway driving. But not much information for those with a bit more in the way of elevation challenges.

p.s. Our V does fantastic on these kinds of roads. When not worrying about any mileage games it has plenty of power to fly up as fast as I care to go and enough stick to make it fun, even when mashing the pedal we still get 2-6 times better mileage than some of our earlier cars on the same section of road. I do feel a bit guilty about the amount of tire I'm leaving on each turn though. I wonder if there it's possible to buy rubber offsets.