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I keep track of everything myself. That's fine, we don't have to call it a mild hybrid. But whatever you want to call it, it's working really well on my car.

I keep track of everything myself. That's fine, we don't have to call it a mild hybrid. But whatever you want to call it, it's working really well on my car. It only has about 7k miles on it, but the efficiency keeps getting better as it breaks-in. I have to imagine that this is probably as good as it will get. Let me ask you something, though: if I went back and edited the original post to say 30 mpg, would you agree that how someone drives makes a huge difference in their fuel costs. Because that was my main point :)

zucked 4y ago
Yes - I'm certainly being pedantic. You're correct in that driving style can have a huge impact on fuel consumption. You don't have to hypermile it; just not playing speed racer between red lights, cruising at 70 instead of 85 helps, etc. I was just kind of blown away by the claim. Not that long ago, high 30's MPG on the highway was the domain of economy cars (think Corolla's and the like) and euro diesel cars. To hear that a gasoline SUV, albeit a smaller one, could be close to 40MPG on the highway made me skeptical and curious of how it was achieved.