Haha, i've always been getting really bad gas mileage. I resetted my MID after i filled up and was driving on the highway and checked my MID. After some city driving the MPG went back down to 20=(. At least i'm improving from 18 and 19 mpg.

 

who needs a TL hybrid

 

We Californians do .

 

NOBODY !!!

But before I got the TL, I also testdrove the Accord Hybrid. I liked it better then the regular gasoline one. More hp and could not tell when it switched other then the indicator on the gauge panel.

 

You can get up to 36MPG when you're travelling on the highway and zero out the MPH and MPG section. But it won't stay long until you hit city

 

yeah i've never seen 32mpg before on this car!! haha made me feel good for 45 mins, until i hit the city....

 

The only problem with hybrids is those batteries eventually do require replacing. And if anyone didn't realize those are expensive. In addition, batteries add a lot of weight.

 

On my current tank I was as high as 34 after 100 miles... now at 411 miles, 11 plus hours and it dropped to 29

But, I have been short shifting to get that high for once.. I usually get 24.

 

I had 33 mpg at an average 58 mph recently after I filled up with gas and immediately got on the highway for about 20 miles. But as you note, it quickly dropped once I exited onto the streets.

In February I went up to Seven Springs in Pennsylvania and filled up on the way there, probably around the halfway point. It's about 200 miles each way, so in the ensuing 300 miles of driving, virtually all on the highway, I got 27 mpg at an average of about 63 mph. The average speed would have been higher but for the drive from the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the ski resort.....oh, and Breezewood, of course.

I normally get 21 to 22 mpg driving in DC-area traffic.

As for a TL hybrid, well, Virginia currently lets people with hybrids get a special license plate that allows you to drive solo in the HOV lanes, so that's a pretty good argument for a hybrid! (They're talking about repealing the ban as window-dressing to get the hardcore carpool crowd to stop whining about "congestion.")

 

I remember when they tried the HOV lanes in NJ on like 80, 287 etc. It was torture to sit in traffic and see that empty lane calling for you to come on over...many did, many tickets...they finally made it a regular lane.

 

I commute on I-395 and the HOV lanes are barrier-separated and are reversible. They've had HOV on there since the 1970s (well before they came up with the term "HOV"), although they decreased the restriction from HOV-4 to HOV-3. Current discussion is whether to convert it to HOT (High Occupancy Toll, i.e., HOVs go free and non-HOVs can use them if they pay).