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    The DukeThe Duke
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      @sgb101
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      That obvious but why so it yourself, when an app can automate it for you.

      For my car fuel i use fuelio, o could do it by hand, its hardly hard, but fuelio makes it’s seamless and cloud saves, so i never lose any data. My car is very ‘optimistic’ ony mpg always staying around 36mpg, however its closer to 28mpg and never breached 33mpg. The 33mpg was achieved over a 4000mile round trip to sothern Spain. 3000 of which was motorway miles, doing a steady 85 to 90. My old laguna would do 65mpg on that type of run and averaged 55mpg every full up. The current car falls shy of its Average 65mpg Vx states. I once spent a week (full tank) driving slow, genital acceleration never going above the limits, went down to manchester, then to somewhere near stoke, and didn’t go over 60 on the motorway, in 6th, real careful ‘green’ driving i hit a whole 36mpg. It wasnt worth the tedium for about 20 extra miles a tank.

      At 11pm im off to manchester airport for my lad, i sure on be doing 60 then!

      i don’t monitor my gas and electric usage. I canceled my smart matter fitting with NPower as my fixed term ended and my bill almost doubled. So i switched to SSE and canceled the meter, at the last momenr. My prices is back to the initial NPower prices was, for the next 2 years (or may be one).

      #17320
      JayCeeDeeJayCeeDee
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        @jayceedee
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        , genital acceleration …………………

         

        I tried that once, in a car, but never bothered again. Gear lever got in the way.???

        #17321
        The DukeThe Duke
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          @sgb101
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          It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt ?

          #17332
          DrezhaDrezha
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            @drezha
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            That’s it – Smart Meter does all the calcs and graphs for me with only me having to put the meter readings in (which I have to read anyhow). I’ve not managed to find one, so I’ll stick with Smart Meters (just on the iPad, not the phone).

            Fuelio is excellent, but useless for me now, as I’ve the hybrid. It doesn’t handle that well at all, because I can use power and fuel at the same time and it assumes that you’ll only use one or the other. So the data is gives isn’t accurate anymore, which is a shame because it was a really good app.

            "Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

            #17336
            RichardRichard
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              @sawboman
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              I am surprised that you found the car MPG so different from that actually achieved. With mine the difference has only been one or two miles per gallon on both of the cars. I check the figures every tank full as part of my accounting for the charges so it is not really a special effort. Mostly the cars are only doing short trips these days, supermarket, Screwfix, doctor or daughter’s volunteering twice a week. A busy day might one or other do car ‘as much’ as 30 miles so a tank of fuel might last 2 months in the more frequently used one or 4 months in the other. Cold weather and short trips do really slaughter the average performance, but the gauge reveals all including the effects of a local council’s traffic jam creating, never ending party for the mud pie men.

              #34556
              PlaneManPlaneMan
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                @planeman
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                Came across a genius game today, Bridge Constructor Portal.

                If you liked Portal you should like this, GLaDOS is as funny as ever and the game is brilliant.

                At time of posting it’s £2.69 instead of £4.99.

                #34951
                Wheels-Of-FireWheels-Of-Fire
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                  @grahamdearsley
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                  MPG was a sore point for me.

                  My company car was a 2 litre 16V Vauxhall Vectra and Vauxhall said it got 36 MPG on the conbind cycle. The AA said they got 38 MPG in testing so my company used that to set a NATIONAL rate of 22p per mile.

                  I never did a combined cycle. I spent all day in London traffic with the aircon on and I got 25 MPG.

                  With the small distances I traveled l  never even got to tack a few private miles on to my expences claim like everyone outside London did !

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