In another thread today, wycolo wrote:
This confuses me (easy task, there). To give a real-road example, if I start with "X miles" remaining on my battery level, and then regen my way down the several miles of the Yarnell ramp, my battery level will indicate "X+3" at the ramp's bottom. But if I were to throw the S into Neutral at the top, besides having to brake many times on the way down (it's not a straight run and not even Monster Tajima could just coast-accelerate to 162mph or whatever the final velocity would be), then I certainly wouldn't be able to coast those 3 gained miles before losing speed.
So:
1. Is Wycolo correct, but that the Mexican overdrive (NPCSpeech for throwing into Neutral) beats regen only in limited conditions (straight ramp; modest duration)?
2. Is Wycolo incorrect - or rather, are those hyper-milers acting against their interest?
3. Is my example faulty?
I've owned almost exclusively mannytrannies for the past 50 years - nothing like hitting 90mph down a good long Alaskan or northern Canada ramp in a pickup truck with 26,000 lbs of cargo, campershell, trailer....., in hopes of saving a few tablespoonsful of diesel. But over the decades, it does add up
Hyper-Milers pop it into NEUTRAL all the time in pursuit of 'better than regen' efficiency. Free wheeling down hills can be had easily this way (now that cold morning starts won't return until December).
This confuses me (easy task, there). To give a real-road example, if I start with "X miles" remaining on my battery level, and then regen my way down the several miles of the Yarnell ramp, my battery level will indicate "X+3" at the ramp's bottom. But if I were to throw the S into Neutral at the top, besides having to brake many times on the way down (it's not a straight run and not even Monster Tajima could just coast-accelerate to 162mph or whatever the final velocity would be), then I certainly wouldn't be able to coast those 3 gained miles before losing speed.
So:
1. Is Wycolo correct, but that the Mexican overdrive (NPCSpeech for throwing into Neutral) beats regen only in limited conditions (straight ramp; modest duration)?
2. Is Wycolo incorrect - or rather, are those hyper-milers acting against their interest?
3. Is my example faulty?
I've owned almost exclusively mannytrannies for the past 50 years - nothing like hitting 90mph down a good long Alaskan or northern Canada ramp in a pickup truck with 26,000 lbs of cargo, campershell, trailer....., in hopes of saving a few tablespoonsful of diesel. But over the decades, it does add up