70 mpg in my Prius today.

[trof]

I'm HYPERMILING, baby!
http://www.hypermiling.com/

[mucifer]

1. I'm only getting 45 in my 2007 Prius. I just can't get the technique down.

But, 45mpg isn't so bad in stop and go Chicago traffic which I have to do all day as a hospice nurse.

[Selatius]

5. Be lucky you have a hybrid at all. I drive a '95 camry. Hypermiling only gets me 30mpg in the city.

On the interstates, I'm somewhere between 32 and 35mpg.

[trof]

16. Not so much lucky as a lot poorer.

But I hoping for the future payback.

[trof]

15. Main thing: No Brakes.

Difficult in big city traffic.

[Clovis Sangrail]

2. grats

I've got an older one (2002) and the best I've ever been able to get my average up to is 50 :(

[goddess40]

3. 56.7 last time I checked

It's mostly city miles, I love my prius as much as I hate the gas companies

[trof]

17. 50 miles each way. 4 lane.

Me: s-l-o-w lane.

[NightWatcher]

4. I got 38 mpg in my Corolla today driving on the interstate

compared to you, does that make me a gas guzzler?

[trof]

18. Naw, you doin' good. Hyper will make better though.

[mucifer]

6. I'm gonna try some of the tips from your link

[Skink]

7. But you still will have fill up sometime

[mucifer]

9. Yeah, it sucks but some jobs like mine require a car.

[trof]

19. Next week?

;-)

[texanwitch]

8. I can get between 40 and 50 mpg in little pickup truck.

It just depends where I am driving.

I keep the truck tuned, tires full, and drive the speed limit.

I really like my little truck.

I can drive to Austin and back and have plenty of gas left over.

[Schema Thing]

10. what is it?

[texanwitch]

13. I have little Toyota.

I took a lot of grief for buying it.

The truck has run great all these years.

[RareLubbockDem]

11. My Camry Hybrid will be here next week

I'm looking forward to testing the limits to see what I can get. I finally had to get rid of the SUV. With as many miles as I drive, I'm set to save around $250/month (not to mention the environment!)

[trof]

20. Good on ya.

[Mountainman]

12. 140 MPG in my SUV today!

I commute 70 miles one way to work or 140 miles round trip. I ride the "Clean Air Express" bus and do not drive. Therefore leaving my SUV parked got me 140 MPG today! I put less pollutants in the air with my SUV than you Prius did.

[mucifer]

14. Tell me how I can do that as a hospice nurse who sees 4-6 patients a day

across cook county in Chicago. Plus I have to have with me supplies in my trunk catheters, syringes, wound dressings you name it. I can't take a bus and I work for a small non profit. I like my Prius. But, I wish it ran on solar energy.

[Mountainman]

26. Well, we have to do something about high gas prices now and find alternatives soon.

It seems the higher prices get the more people will be looking for alternatives.

[trof]

22. Even better. Very poor public trans here.

Small town, farming community.

[Burma Jones]

21. I can get about 50 mpg in my Hybrid Camry, given the right conditions

I live north of DC and when I drive south, I am actually going downhill all the way to the Potomac River, so I get about 5 mpg better mileage going south than going north. If I can just drive the highway without interruption, generally downhill, I get about 50 mpg. The best I got from my old car (Infiniti M45) was about 23 mpg, but that car had 360 HP.

[MikeDuffy]

23. Do you know if you also average fewer miles than you used to?

Or is there a tendency to drive further than you used to (because it costs less per mile)?

[trof]

24. We drive much less.

We make a list of 'town errands'.
Wait until we can kill several birds with one stone.
The Dodge mini-van is hardly ever driven anymore.
Only use both cars if she MUST be somewhere at the same time I MUST be somewhere.
We even schedule routine dentist and doctor appointments at the same time.

We're thinking seriously about selling the mini-van and becoming...WHOA!...a one car family.
Heresy!
:scared:

[lectrobyte]

27. I tend to drive less. With the Prius, you really see how much gas those cold

starts take, so I tend to group errands together. Not hypermiling, but I get this kind of mileage pretty consistently:

[Initech]

25. I can get about 34 MPG on average in my Altima (and its not a hybrid).

[kerry-is-my-prez]

28. My boyfriend is planning on getting one - any advice?

n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

29. Too bad you can't plug them in to charge the batteries.

(Unless you've had it converted.) When that feature becomes standard is when hybrids will really come into their own. You'll only need to use the gas when you exhaust the battery charge. Plus a solar panel on the roof could assist in keeping the batteries charged.

[Clark2008]

30. I get far more than the sticker in my Mustang

Mainly because of the way I drive and the fact that mine is a straight-shift.

People with manual transmissions learn to "hyper mile" if, for no other reason, than to save wear and tear on their clutch knee. But the side-effects of rolling in traffic, drafting and down-shifting to avoid braking is... you guessed it... amazing gas mileage.

I travel about 30 miles round trip per day to work five days a week, plus another 5 or 10 miles for errands and weekend driving on $30 in gas.

I keep a constant speed when I can, I keep the oil changed, the tires inflated properly, I downshift instead of brake and I only accelerate abnormally when I'm trying to avoid an accident or pass someone who is either practicing unsafe driving or just plain being stupid. :) My car isn't a hybrid or even a tiny scoot - it's a medium-sized sports car, which, given driving conditions in my area (interstates 75 and 40 MEET here) is a good car to have. I wouldn't feel comfortable in anything smaller since there are so many semi's traveling in this area.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

31. 47 mpg with a bike rack and bike on the roof!

Had been 55 mpg without. Honestly thinking of taking it off.