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Space shuttle mileage
« on: July 06, 2013, 01:53:45 PM »
I have just moved house, to Peterborough, but travel back to Herts, to teach pupils, so I now do around 300 miles a day ! So I reckon I might nudge 60k miles a year ! At the moment my Hybrid has 55k on the clock, and is 2 years old in September. Maybe time to look up "Honda High Mileage Club"  :D

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2013, 03:40:40 PM »
How long is the round trip?  That type of driving would make me insane.  Not so much sitting in the car but avoiding the other idiots on the road
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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2013, 03:54:56 PM »
but you're not round that way chris.  ;)

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2013, 05:04:24 PM »
What mpg are you getting with all those miles?

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2013, 05:45:50 PM »
Its 60 miles from Peterborough to Welwyn, then a day of driving tuition, then another 60 mile trip home. The commute is all motorway or dual carriageway, and I can do it in an hour, to hour and a half, depending on traffic, and get 55mpg on that part of the day.

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2013, 10:34:05 PM »
At the moment my Hybrid has 55k on the clock
Just turned 57k  ::)

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2013, 11:39:58 AM »
but you're not round that way chris.  ;)

I agree, but it is the distance that gives me the horrors.  The traffic in the UK is much more dense than here, which I would imagine would make it worse.
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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2013, 09:56:59 PM »
I have just done 325 miles in today, I am currently working 6 days a week, so I am doing nearly 2000 miles a week if I keep this up !  :o :o :o

Thankfully the diary is a bit quieter for August .

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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2013, 08:06:06 AM »
At the moment my Hybrid has 55k on the clock
Just turned 57k  ::)
Now 63k, settled down to around 1000 miles a week, but only working 3-4 days a week as I had an £800 fuel bill in July, and thats with a Hybrid !

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2013, 01:35:22 PM »
Now 63k, settled down to around 1000 miles a week, but only working 3-4 days a week as I had an £800 fuel bill in July, and thats with a Hybrid !
What's that in old fashioned mpg? A quick sum assuming £800 and 6k miles suggests 45mpg which seems too low for the hybrid, particularly since yours is now well loosened up.

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2013, 08:40:04 PM »
As its used for tuition purposes, sometimes it does 60 miles in an hour, sometimes only 4 miles an hour if we are doing manoeuvres, as a guide I usually leave home at 8.30, start work at 10am, finish my last lesson at 7pm, and I am back home around 8pm. At that point the car has been running for 11.5 hours almost constantly, covered around 300 miles, and used approx £40 in fuel, or 30 (ish) litres, or 6.5 gallons, which equates to 46mpg as you say, however I prefer to think of it as 0.6 gallons per hour, or £3.60 per hour.

As a driving instructor we will never match the manufacturers mpg, however can you imagine what the mpg is when using a petrol Focus where the manufacturer claims 32mpg, realistically that would be around 24mpg as a tuition car. Thats why you need to start with a frugal car in the first place  :D

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2013, 10:31:08 AM »
Thanks for the clarification. Even with my frugal driving style and trying to avoid short journeys with cold engines can't get near the manufacturer's claimed economy (I'm at 58.5 mpg which is only 13% better than I got with the non-hybrid Jazz).

Maybe the 2014 hybrid which is reported to have a decent sized battery will be able to provide the fuel economy that I would like.

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2013, 09:39:17 PM »
Today I thought I would try turning OFF the air con,  and try and be a bit gentle on the trip south, so I did 65 miles averaging 59.2mpg, not bad for a rush hour trip  ;D

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2013, 08:09:20 PM »
At the moment my Hybrid has 55k on the clock
Just turned 57k  ::)
Now 63k, settled down to around 1000 miles a week, but only working 3-4 days a week as I had an £800 fuel bill in July, and thats with a Hybrid !
80,000 miles reached today !  :o :o :o

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Re: Space shuttle mileage
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2014, 07:44:44 PM »
At the moment my Hybrid has 55k on the clock
Just turned 57k  ::)
Now 63k, settled down to around 1000 miles a week, but only working 3-4 days a week as I had an £800 fuel bill in July, and thats with a Hybrid !
80,000 miles reached today !  :o :o :o
87,500 service today

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