[darisgin]

Four-day College round trip: Boston → Annapolis → Williamsburg → Annapolis → Boston
1,456 miles. Tire pressure cold: 36 psi; hot: 39.5 psi
Downward leg + tooling around town(s): 3 passengers; empty van, mild hypermiling
27.5 mpg indicated; 27.3 calculated.

Homeward leg, straight shot, Annapolis → Boston
429 miles; 4 passengers; full van; moderate hypermiling (kept speed between 60 and 80 mph)
31.0 mpg indicated (re-fuelings did not lend themselves to calculation).

I love this van! While I didn't feel fresh as a daisy, I felt OK after, what, 11 hours of driving on Day 1? Pretty impressive.

(Why do I hypermile? Because it keeps my speed under 80. Or 90...)

 

[CochiseG]

you mean 80 or 90 miles per hour ? I get a lower fuel economy at those speed maybe because its on hilly highways. We're going for a almost 3k mile trip (total, down and up) ... I expect it'll do about 27-28mpg. But we stop every 45 minutes with all the kids that may be hurting the economy a lot