Alright, just got home. I remembered to reset the Avg MPH and MPG before I left work. Once I reset the meters, I put the DIC back to the speedometer/MPH and forgot about it (in other words - I tried my best to not "hypermile" just because I knew I was going to be posting the results). I actually forgot about it to the point that I did my 100% normal route, forgot to do city only.
So this is the route I took on the way home -
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Originally Posted by meissen
On my drive home, I drive 21 miles all city with a 35mph speed limit (admittedly, usually going 45) with a ton of lights. Then I hop onto the local interstate and drive another 6.5 miles on the freeway averaging 75-80mph. Then back off the freeway into city streets with a 40mph speedlimit for the remaining 3 miles.
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I had both windows down, AC on MAX and blower at speed 5. (It's 93* and muggy, but I still can't help but put the windows down
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Here's the results:
A little shy of my normal 25mpg claim - but still a hell of a lot better than 17mpg... When I got on the freeway, I realized "Ah shit I was supposed to do all city..." and I scrolled to my MPGs. I was at 23.9mpg when I merged onto the freeway. I scrolled it back to MPH and continued driving - traffic was moving so I stayed in 6th gear the whole time and aside from one point where traffic mashed on their breaks I was going 75 the whole time. So between the 6 miles on the freeway and then 3 miles going 40mph in 6th gear, the MPGs went up another .5mpgs.