Tank MPG

Where do you live, what kind of car do you have, options, etc. Update Profile! thanks!

 

C'mon. All you have to deal with is cold, snow and hills.

Try winter driving in northern Illinois! We have cold . . and . . uh . . well, it does snow sometimes. Did I mention that cold thing?

Winter MPGs are pretty tough to deal with after a summer of fun. I'm still thinking the EBH is the way to go. It made a difference with my 2007.

 

Consider me updated!

Pinetop, AZ! Nice place...I grew up in the Phoenix area and used to vacation up there a lot...

 

My wife and I spent 4 years at the U. of Chicago. Glad to be outa that! After that, 5 years in Iowa City, IA. I remember a winter of -35 w/ a windchill of -70 F. Yeah, I'd be gettin the EBH too. Now "Pria" gets an insulated garage for the night! Coldest temps never even reach 40 in there even at 7000 feet! Spoiled car!

 

As promised, my tank 'mpg'
1040 km = 646 mi
3.7 l/100 km = 63.5 mpg
tanked 40.54 l = 3.90 l/100 km = 60.3 mpg
avg speed = 58 km/h = 36 mph

My last commute today was 90 km - 3.5 l/100 km - 64 km/h.

 

Nicely done -- but why not 700 miles?

 

Mileage was higher when the average speed was higher, but the last couple of hundred miles was in town and short trips which brought both avg speed and mileage down

 

Wow!!!

 

What does it mean when it says miles, cons and then avg? I assume miles is the number of miles for the car in that particular trip category, Consumps is the MPG for that trip setting, but what does avg mean? Avg for the trip or the odometer or what?

 

Average speed for the tripmeter setting. When you reset the trip, the Avg will reset also.

 

I bet I could lower your mpg.

Normal driving (not like a blue haired old lady)
AC on MAX
Idling with AC on MAX in parking lots for 20 minutes
Lots of cold starts during the day
= 36mpg at best

 

OK, I did drive like a blue hair, but it's hot down here and I will not drive hot, I keep the AC cool. 75 or less usually. If I want to sweat I'd be on one of my bikes.
On that note, I'm bad about eating at Sonic and I do leave the car in ready mode with AC on for the entire 20 or 30 min. which kills my average speed for example and doesn't help mileage at all because I always leave with two bars SOC, which kills mileage for several miles until the SOC comes back up.
First half of the tank was quick, the last half was short in town trips, and 5 or 6 cold starts a day. But there was no freeway driving, that would have brought mileage down surely.
I think part of it is I just got a "good" one. I test fly new aircraft for a living, three of four a month and all of them are exactly the same, but every now and again one is a "dog" and every now and again one will just blow the doors off of the others. Don't know why, but the difference is amazing.

Why do you have the Flag upside down in your Avatar?

 

So Cons is the MPG for that trip category and Avg is the average speed for that trip category? Do I have that right?

 

Yup.

 

Is the Cons MPG an average of the tank or what? How does it get computed?

 

I think it is computed based on fuel injector pulse width, RPM and vehicle speed. It is a computation of how much fuel the engine should have used, there is no actual flow meter. It is based on when the trip meter is reset, it will continue to update itself until the meter is reset regardless of whether the car is re-fueled or not. I don't reset trip B, I use it as life time consumption meter.

 

Ya, thats what ive done as well. I use Trip A for MPG and w/e from individual fillups, and B as the overall trip meter

 

How do you all do it?!? I'm starting to wonder if I have a similiar type of problem as dark_prius. I'm at 4500 miles and my best tank of gas was my first at 47.7 mpg. most tanks I'm at about 45.

My tires are correct pressure (just checked before a 500 mile trip). my commute is about 14 miles and about 9 of that i Highway driving on cruise control at 65 I get about 43 mpg. I do get better mileage on the way to the highway but thats because my speed is so low that the car seems to use mainly battery power (I don't have the car in EV). The car is always in eco mode and except for about 5-10 seconds when merging onto the highway I keep the acceleration down so its not in power mode. I also try to glide\slow down whenever possible so I don't have to stop at traffic lights.

oh, gen 3 IV solar. I generally don't drive with the air on. I do sometimes drive with the windows down and roof open but I have done full tanks open and closed and the windows don't make that much of a difference.

 

since its not "tank" mileage, will not bore you with details here... BUT i will post a link on my data for VERY Short trip mileage.

http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-iii...rt-tripping-mini-tank-mileage.html#post967140

 

Well Indy hows your tank?



In case my crappy cell phone pic is not readable it's 700.3 miles at 65 MPG and average MPH of 31. Now I'll quit fooling around and go back to getting serious mileage.

Wayne