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Originally Posted by Jivko57
sorry, i meant i do not believe such mpg on a stock insight.
of course additional batteries , mima and hard work can bring the MPG in 100s and 150s zones. Congratiolations on the >100mpg achievement.
but my opinion is the unmodified insight 2000 capability is between 60 and 70 average for comutes ~ 50 miles round trip with 90% highway... will wait and see how it does with the summer gas...
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My first four tanks before I got MIMA and while I was learning to drive the car were 75-77mpg (summer conditions). Mostly commuting about 35miles each way, mostly highway. This was also before I learned to slow down. Despite the great aerodynamics of the Insight-I, speed has a tremendous effect on fuel usage.
I use MIMA for:
- shutting off assist
- occasionally manually adding in more regen than the stock setup calls for
- shutting off the engine more safely and with less effort than keying off for coasts
From what MIMA has taught me, I think I could do much better than 77mpg without it. In fact, my best run 109.5mpg run was done before I knew about shutting off assist, so I might have come close to that just keying off.
The really high mpg numbers 125-165mpg are achieved under special conditions, low speeds, etc. They really fall under a special category outside of normal daily usage.
PHEV mpg's should also fall under a separate category because there is an additional (very efficient and inexpensive) energy input: external electricity. Certainly the gasoline "mpg's" achievable will depend on the size of the battery pack and the distance traveled between recharges.
