Ct. to Nashville and back : 2227.2 miles-36.8mpg

Day 2

Boston Dan said:

Initially, I was disappointed with the gas mileage, but the MPG on my 22 Tucson Limited (gas) has significantly improved. I recently had the 3750 mile maintenance and yesterday we did a 200 mile drive from MA to ME ( the longest highway trip yet ). The average MPG hovered around 33 MPG - and that was at an average 65-70 MPH. Even local drives are averaging 26-28 MPG. Impressive!

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That is really good. Mine has been pretty consistent over the eight months of ownership ("Blue" Hybrid) . Here is an update on my trip. We are headed back to Ct. now. I played around with sport mode today. I drove in eco until the battery drained to just under 50%, drove 70-75 mph in sport until the battery fully charged, then switched back to eco. Hardly affected the mileage at all and picked up the pace a little. You get a little more torque out of the electric motor with a fully charged battery. The thing really scoots in sport on the highway, 100mph comes up on you with very little effort.

Last leg of my trip (return to Ct) . Today I had the cruise set to 72mph. That dropped the mpg for that part of the trip to about 34mpg, which lowered the overall average. I'm satisfied. This is the second time I took this same trip, with similar results.