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Honda Civic LX 07 - Real Mileage Information
29 April 2008 @ 10:30 AM MST
29 April 2008 @ 10:30 AM MST
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Current Mood: Alright
Current Mood: Alright
So first off, my paper to AAAI didn't get accepted; not that I'm surprised I didn't think it fit very well with the topic of the workshop, but it's still too bad. But now I don't have to make and give a presentation for it though, and I'll most likely still be going to the Conference in July. Now on to the topic of this post.
I've been tracking my car's gas consumption over the last year. Well, actually I've been collecting my gas receipts and recording mileage information on them. This morning I took them out of the envelope and entered them into a spreadsheet. It provides me with some interesting data. To preface the information, I'm a fairly conservative driver, I don't generally drive very aggressively. No quick accelerations or hard braking, unless necessary. I also usually coast when a light turns red to try and time it so that I never have to come to a complete stop. So I tend to drive fairly economically, assuming the moronic Provo drivers around me aren't making that impossible.
The best I was able to get was 33.534 MPG, over ~1 day, while doing all highway driving from Provo to Rexburg, which is interesting to me because I remember that North of Salt Lake City there was bumper to bumper stopped traffic for miles, which I'm sure wasn't helping the efficiency.
The worst was 19.885 MPG. This was over the course of the month of February, doing only short drives between home and campus or home and the store. February was very cold, so the engine never really had a chance to warm up on these trips. Not very surprising that the efficiency was not very good.
Overall, my average efficiency from April 18, 2007 to April 28, 2008 was 28.895 MPG. (7551.5 miles / 261.339 gallons) Oh, and I always filled up with 87 Octane fuel, rather than the 85 they do sell in Utah. That same time period cost me $794.59 to pay for gas, wow that's a big number when looking at it for a year, no wonder my money is disappearing more quickly than I'd like.
There seems to be no correlation between where the gas was purchased and the efficiency.
Here's a graph for the visually oriented among you:
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I've been tracking my car's gas consumption over the last year. Well, actually I've been collecting my gas receipts and recording mileage information on them. This morning I took them out of the envelope and entered them into a spreadsheet. It provides me with some interesting data. To preface the information, I'm a fairly conservative driver, I don't generally drive very aggressively. No quick accelerations or hard braking, unless necessary. I also usually coast when a light turns red to try and time it so that I never have to come to a complete stop. So I tend to drive fairly economically, assuming the moronic Provo drivers around me aren't making that impossible.
The best I was able to get was 33.534 MPG, over ~1 day, while doing all highway driving from Provo to Rexburg, which is interesting to me because I remember that North of Salt Lake City there was bumper to bumper stopped traffic for miles, which I'm sure wasn't helping the efficiency.
The worst was 19.885 MPG. This was over the course of the month of February, doing only short drives between home and campus or home and the store. February was very cold, so the engine never really had a chance to warm up on these trips. Not very surprising that the efficiency was not very good.
Overall, my average efficiency from April 18, 2007 to April 28, 2008 was 28.895 MPG. (7551.5 miles / 261.339 gallons) Oh, and I always filled up with 87 Octane fuel, rather than the 85 they do sell in Utah. That same time period cost me $794.59 to pay for gas, wow that's a big number when looking at it for a year, no wonder my money is disappearing more quickly than I'd like.
There seems to be no correlation between where the gas was purchased and the efficiency.
Here's a graph for the visually oriented among you:
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