Florida to Upstate NY (Saratoga Springs)
2017 22 Ft. Class C Ford E-350 Super Duty Triton V10 flat towing Ford Fiesta (2600 lbs). About 10 MPG in Florida (flat elevation) I-95 to I-87 Eastern Seaboard Route is flat elevation but crowded a...
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jplante4 wrote:JaxDad wrote:
Don't forget also, for every hill you have to climb, there's a downhill you get to coast too. It's only the difference in fuel to climb minus the fuel saved coasting down that hill that you have to account for.
You spend more time pulling uphill than you spend coasting downhill, so it's not a wash.
Which is exactly why I DIDN’T say it was.
If you go (for ease of discussing) 5 miles of uphills at 5 mpg (1 gallon burned), and 5 miles of downhills at 15 mpg (0.33 gallon burned), you have burned 1.33 gallons to go 10 miles.
You have then averaged ~7.5 mpg over those 10 miles.
