Post your mpg

Gosh those gas prices suck! I filled up the other day for $1.95 a gallon.

 

Got 22.4 on trip to VA last weekend. Filled up for 1.88 as well. Love that state...

 

yeah, no

 

My mother in law had bypass heart surgery and we have been doing her card stocking job at 99 Cent Stores in her area on the weekends. I've been putting in 500 mile weekends due to this and have been getting 21mpg with highway speeds around 70mph. Not bad. Almost always a strong head wind in one directions, sometimes in both directions depending on the time we leave each area.

 

On my MT truck the best that I can get is 17.5 MPG combined

 

On my TRD OR DCLB with stock suspension and wheels and tires....I get about 17 mpg when just doing in town driving. I just did a 250 mile trip driving over the sierras from highway 395 down to the Sacramento valley and I got 22.8 mpg. Pretty good for going up and down grade.

Combined city and highway I typically get somewhere in the 19+ mpg range.

All of these are alot better than my 2000 Nissan Xterra which was getting 11 mpg when I traded it in on the Tacoma. I am living the dream as far as mileage goes at this point.

 

I filled up today for $2.79 gallon

 

I am getting roughly what you're getting--except mixed driving is giving me around 20. After upgrading from a 4 banger 5 speed 4x4, I am surprised in my gas mileage being similar to it!

 

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I have a TRD Sport 4x4 auto DCSB. I take the same route home and to work. My drive to work says 21.5 and my drive home says 18. Yet it averages out to 18.2 somehow. I can't quite understand how that's my avg MPG. On my next fill up I'll do the math myself and see what's going on. This will be my second time filling up the tank.

 

Based on a few comments doubting the gas mileage I was getting and if I was using Imperial miles I ran my truck down to 2 miles to empty. I then put in exactly 5 gallons of 87 Octane gas in. I have commuted 2 1/2 days and made three short trips (errands). I am pulling a boat this weekend so it will cut into the mileage into the mid teens.

Here are the computer results and the math to back it up per the Odometer reading. Please note I am at 4 miles to empty vs the 2 miles to empty when I put the 5 gallons in.

Odometer reading (133.0 Miles + 2 Showing) / 5 gallons of gas = 27 MPG
Backing into the number = 4.9 Gallons at 27.8 MPG

I suspect the difference in the tenths of a gallon is when I filled up 2 vs. 4. I drove a bit on 2 mpg vs cutting it off in the parking lot at 4. I also took snap shots of the ECO page of each trip. Had one bad commute home, but a good commute in this morning. Cut out the trips around town and it bumps that up slightly.

Here is the pic -

 

With all of the savings you are getting with 27.8mpg, you should be able to afford a full tank to document mpg properly.

Distance to empty isn't a very good point of comparison, IMO.

 

LOL, it's 2 miles... Do the math without it, put in a 10% margin of error, or use the odometer (unless you question the trip odometer).
It's pretty darn close, you are splitting hairs. The discussion is commuting, not my overall average. That will greatly differ depending on my driving. I pull two different boats, commute, and run errands. This run on the 5 gallons was commuting and errands.

86 fuels ups isn't really relevant to my MPG commuting. My point was/is commuting in a 4WD 4 door truck that is darn good gas mileage however you want to chop it up. Dodge is actually better with their new transmission in a full-size!

 

Distance to empty is calculated from your current conditions, so even if it was 4 miles to 4 miles it is not an apples to apples comparison.

Granted, there is always a margin of error no matter how it is done, but you seem to have invented your own substandard method. Why not just do it the widely accepted way?

Fill #1: Fill to the first click. Note air temperature, gas pump number and vehicle position/direction.

drive approximately 5 gallons worth of distance (in your case)

Fill #2: recreate conditions of Fill #1 as close as possible, fill to first click ... calculate.

This way we are all reasonably close to the same margin of error.

 

OK with a little over 3000 miles this is my best so far. 17 DCSB OR MT all stock. The trip was from Sonora to Fresno, CA, 45% rolling hills 2000 ft net elevation +/- @ 60MPH, 45% flat freeway @ 65MPH, and 10% city (which in Fresno is stop at every light and wait forever for the light to change).





I got 25.5 on the down hill to Fresno, and it was at 21.0 until I pulled up the driveway at home.

 

7r41lbr34k3r, I am not comparing anything... I am stating what my typical MPG is commuting to work & back, and in this case a couple errands. Nothing more nothing less. There is no "we" in the discussion, it is what I am getting in my commute +/- what I see as a fairly small margin of error.

The reason for the post, was the questioning of the ability to get 25+ MPG commuting. Just showing it is possible and more often than not I am at or better than 25 MPG per the comp commuting in and going home (2 way).

 

Don't be surprised if more people question you. Just trying to help you be more clear. I disagree that your margin of error is "small". It's probably larger than you think.

 

This method isn't going to satisfy the doubters... I don't know that anything will, honestly. (I would like to be there for a ~35mpg trip, though.) Like I said, my last 4 tanks were all >24mpg, >500miles, and computer and pump calculation were within 1%.

If I only went to the gym, I would get 27-28 mpg; but, I don't work, have a 7 year old, take her to karate, swimming, library, local fast food and all that kills my 27mpg gym commute.

Doubters, look at my fuelly account http://www.fuelly.com/car/toyota/tacoma/2017/tharris242/531107 My last ~2000 miles have been ~24.5mpg. My first 5000 was mostly a vacation between Houston and Las Vegas... ~22mpg? This truck does not get good mileage at or above 65.

Here is what I get (OR 4x4 Auto) on a flat cruise, no A/C, warmed up:
40 = ~35 mpg
45 = ~33
50 = ~30
55 = ~28
60 = ~25.5
Above is good data, below is estimate:
65 = ~23
70 = ~21
Below is ballpark:
75 = 18.5
80 = 16

 

Here's another example what I consider "acceptable" documentation. Earlier I referenced that I more or less beat my previously documented 25.98mpg tank of 490 miles, without providing it. Here it is.



But, that isn't very good either, so here is the fill receipt ... one could compare this with the fuelly data in my sig if they so desired.

I filled up in NJ, so I wasn't pumping the fuel here. They gave me an ever so slight top off. I entered what read on the screen before he touched the nozzle again. Very minimal difference.



Picture of the trip odometer, and fuel gauge prior to fill ...



First 30 miles of the tank in question ... (you will see later that the calibration is slightly off)

30 miles later ...


Now below is a screen shot just before fill.

Notice the fuel level here, 43.5% ... which should have produced a fill of 11.9 gallons. Looking back up at the receipts actual fill of 12.284G, you can see why it was reading a little bit too generous for MPG(avg) .. which is the tank average.

 

Tharris, you are exactly right. The sweet spot to me is 58-59 MPH and light on the gas. If I can get on an even run and keep it about 65 I can keep the needle close to 30. My commute is primarily flat and these are round trips.

Some people are splitting hairs. However, I suspect I can make a good case the method I utilized is more accurate with less margin of error than Fuelly in this scenario for the same run.