Starting my Trip with a full Tank, Filled up at the local Shell Station - Dufferin & Wilson, at an Odometer reading of 11,276 Kms, I headed out at 13:02 - just after 1 PM on the 25th of June, 2009, and my next stop for fuel was at BFS Foods, in Morgantown WV - 387 miles or 619 Kms at 22:10 (10:10 PM). That leg got me 9.62 LHK (Litres per 100 Kilometers), or 24.56 mpg.
The Next leg took me to Kangaroo Express in Wytheville, VA - 260 miles or 416 Kms at 4:17 AM, for 10.7 LHK, or 22.08 mpg. I made it into Charlotte, NC at about 9:30 AM for another 197 Kms, and drove around town over the course of the Weekend on this tank some additional 230 Kms.
June 29, 2009 - Monday, I left by way of Concord, NC and filled up there at Pantry Gas Station at 12:40 PM, with a trip distance into Charlotte and around town of 288.4 miles or 461 kms, and a fuel efficency of 13 LHK, or 22.18 mpg.
Nothbound I did my first stop at WilcoHess in Wytheville, VA at 16:07 (4:07 PM) for a trip of 145.6 miles or 232.9 Kms, and got 10.76 LHK or 21.96 mpg.
The next stop was at Country Fair Gas Station in Grove City, PA at 23:37 (11:37 PM) for 405 miles or 648 kms, and it got 10.15 LHK or 23.27 mpg. My last US fuel stop, at the Angola Service Center at 5:16 AM, was another 138.3 miles or 221.3 Kms, and got 9.4 LHK or 25.14 Mpg.
I filled up back home with a trip distance of 210.8 Kms, or 131.75 miles, and a short trip of local driving, to end up with an Odometer of 14,087 and a fuel efficiency of 9.97 LHK or 23.7 Mpg.
For Reference - the Dodge Dakota has a Canadian Government Rating of
9.8 LHK Highway!
This Means that over the course of this 2,600 Km Trip, I never exceeded the rating by more than 1 litre per 100 Kms, and in a couple instances bested it by 0.2 - 0.4 Litres per 100 Km!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
AeroCap enjoys a trip of over 2,600 Kms!
Wow! Having had the AeroCap test piece on the truck for a Drive from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, all the way to Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A. and back was an interesting experience.
If you saw the truck in traffic along the way - I'd be happy to see some of your comments posted on this blog! (I will get a few pics posted on the web page shortly!)
First - Just before I left home on Thursday, June 25, 2009, I had a Vinyl sign made for the tailgate of the truck and put the new domain name on it - I chose - www.aerocaps.info - in white letters for a high contrast with the blue truck colors. I set that home page up so that it redirects to this blog for now - as I have been busy and not able to put some core content in it yet.
My wife & I drove this route: Highway 401 West from Dufferin Street, to Highway 427 South to the QEW, and through to Buffalo, N.Y., and West on I-90 to Erie, P.A. Where we headed south on I-79 past Pittsburgh, P.A. To Morgantown, and then took US-19 to Beckly and picked up I-64S/I-77S there. We continued on I-77S until Charlotte, and picked up I-85N toward Greensboro N.C. until our exit for our Hotel, about five minutes up the road! About 1,230 Kms, (according to Google Maps) but it seemed a lot longer!!
Around Charlotte, we drove about 230 Kms over the weekend, and took I-85 up to Concord on Monday to see some facilities we were interested in, before leaving that area after lunch.
We drove up I-85 a bit more and then headed up the 601 until about I-40 and then zipped back over to I-77 for the drive back north. This time - we skipped the detour on US-19 and drove through Charleston back to I-79! Nice City!
We got back home Yesterday - June 30th, Just before 8 AM! I had to take an emergency sleep at the Angola N.Y. Service Center on I-90!
I will report on the Fuel consumption numbers in a later post. As many people who live along this route know - there are some areas with a lot of hills, mountains, and twisty roads, and some construction along the way too. Some of these things take a hit on best fuel efficiency results, but I tried to keep that under control.
As I said above, If you have seen a Blue Dodge Dakota Truck with a Pink Canopy on it, and the white lettered website - www.aerocaps.info on the tailgate, and been redirected here when you checked out that web site - I would be happy to have your comments here!
If you saw the truck in traffic along the way - I'd be happy to see some of your comments posted on this blog! (I will get a few pics posted on the web page shortly!)
First - Just before I left home on Thursday, June 25, 2009, I had a Vinyl sign made for the tailgate of the truck and put the new domain name on it - I chose - www.aerocaps.info - in white letters for a high contrast with the blue truck colors. I set that home page up so that it redirects to this blog for now - as I have been busy and not able to put some core content in it yet.
My wife & I drove this route: Highway 401 West from Dufferin Street, to Highway 427 South to the QEW, and through to Buffalo, N.Y., and West on I-90 to Erie, P.A. Where we headed south on I-79 past Pittsburgh, P.A. To Morgantown, and then took US-19 to Beckly and picked up I-64S/I-77S there. We continued on I-77S until Charlotte, and picked up I-85N toward Greensboro N.C. until our exit for our Hotel, about five minutes up the road! About 1,230 Kms, (according to Google Maps) but it seemed a lot longer!!
Around Charlotte, we drove about 230 Kms over the weekend, and took I-85 up to Concord on Monday to see some facilities we were interested in, before leaving that area after lunch.
We drove up I-85 a bit more and then headed up the 601 until about I-40 and then zipped back over to I-77 for the drive back north. This time - we skipped the detour on US-19 and drove through Charleston back to I-79! Nice City!
We got back home Yesterday - June 30th, Just before 8 AM! I had to take an emergency sleep at the Angola N.Y. Service Center on I-90!
I will report on the Fuel consumption numbers in a later post. As many people who live along this route know - there are some areas with a lot of hills, mountains, and twisty roads, and some construction along the way too. Some of these things take a hit on best fuel efficiency results, but I tried to keep that under control.
As I said above, If you have seen a Blue Dodge Dakota Truck with a Pink Canopy on it, and the white lettered website - www.aerocaps.info on the tailgate, and been redirected here when you checked out that web site - I would be happy to have your comments here!
Monday, June 22, 2009
Domains names finally!
Well, I finally added two domain names to enhance to profile of the Aerocaps Idea! Today I registered them - www.aerocaps.info and www.aerocaps.com/ - which at the moment will just refresh in 5 seconds and re-direct to this blog, until I get some specifics up there.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
AeroCap In Traffic Fuel Efficiency Update
Hi, Well - today was a special day - I got a phone call from a friend to go see the eVaro, in Brampton! What's the eVaro you say? Check it out today! eVaro
Along with that - I of course have a previous model of the ScanGage installed in the 2008 Dodge Dakota, and at the last fill - the recorded scan gage distance was barely a few tenths of a km different than the trip meter since the last fill! I used it to moderate and monitor my lead foot management response, and to of course track my trip fuel economy.
Today - I ended up back home with 73.4 km on the current fill, and a scangage reading of 10.0 l/100km for the tank so far. I must note - I filled the truck up Thursday night, and for the short drive home - it got an average of 14.7 l/100km, so with today's driving, in traffic, I was able to bring down the total run average to 10.0 l/100 km, but in steady state cruising with a throttle TPS reading of 18 - 20, the current Trip reading was delivering a primarily highway trip performance of 9.8 l/100 km!! That is actual Canadian Fuel Rating figure for the truck in it's Highway test - 9.8 l/100 Km! There were also regular periods of 6.5 - 8.0 l/100 readings displayed and some lower - in traffic!
This is an improvement over the last report of 10.1 Litres/100km, but it might be noted - I was not using cruise control due to heavier travid, a different route - Highway 401 from Dufferin west to Highway 410 North to Bovaird, with street traffic for about 5 more kms, each way, and into a approaching storm. so - was my 'wind speed' hihger or lower than it might have been on cruise control at 110 kmh? It's anyones guess, but - I will also say - that there were some peaks of fuel consumption in the 40 - 70 l/100 km range when starting out at lights, ramps, etc.
In any case - 9.8 - 10.0 l/100 km is still impressive in the Dodge Dakota at 100 kmh! The average speed overall on the curent tank of fuel has been 74 kmh, with street, and highway combined from fill-up to home today.
What does all this mean? Well - more suggestion that the AeroCap is doing it's job to smooth airflow, reduce drag, reduce cab noise levels, etc.!
Along with that - I of course have a previous model of the ScanGage installed in the 2008 Dodge Dakota, and at the last fill - the recorded scan gage distance was barely a few tenths of a km different than the trip meter since the last fill! I used it to moderate and monitor my lead foot management response, and to of course track my trip fuel economy.
Today - I ended up back home with 73.4 km on the current fill, and a scangage reading of 10.0 l/100km for the tank so far. I must note - I filled the truck up Thursday night, and for the short drive home - it got an average of 14.7 l/100km, so with today's driving, in traffic, I was able to bring down the total run average to 10.0 l/100 km, but in steady state cruising with a throttle TPS reading of 18 - 20, the current Trip reading was delivering a primarily highway trip performance of 9.8 l/100 km!! That is actual Canadian Fuel Rating figure for the truck in it's Highway test - 9.8 l/100 Km! There were also regular periods of 6.5 - 8.0 l/100 readings displayed and some lower - in traffic!
This is an improvement over the last report of 10.1 Litres/100km, but it might be noted - I was not using cruise control due to heavier travid, a different route - Highway 401 from Dufferin west to Highway 410 North to Bovaird, with street traffic for about 5 more kms, each way, and into a approaching storm. so - was my 'wind speed' hihger or lower than it might have been on cruise control at 110 kmh? It's anyones guess, but - I will also say - that there were some peaks of fuel consumption in the 40 - 70 l/100 km range when starting out at lights, ramps, etc.
In any case - 9.8 - 10.0 l/100 km is still impressive in the Dodge Dakota at 100 kmh! The average speed overall on the curent tank of fuel has been 74 kmh, with street, and highway combined from fill-up to home today.
What does all this mean? Well - more suggestion that the AeroCap is doing it's job to smooth airflow, reduce drag, reduce cab noise levels, etc.!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Finally - Sharp Corners Rounded!
Well, Yesterday, I finally got some time and worked on the AeroCap again - after it just riding around getting bored on the back of the truck all winter!
Among other things, a few weekends back, we got hit with some good sized hail that was about a nickel or so size around, and it really took a beating on the Foam of the Cap, and the sun, winter, and weather had taken it's toll on it as well, creating a dusty, dead skin I needed to run the shaper or 'cheese grater' tool over and clean it all up. After that I worked on shaping up the sides a bit to even out the bit of an offset in the fit, and take out some of the side curve so it matched the cab's curves or lack thereof, better.
Then, with the foam all cleaned up, I decided to start the rounding of the arch curved sides along the left and right top side edge, and also the edge above the tail gate, and bring them together, rounding it all out at the rear corners!
Monday, April 27, 2009
The AeroCap Dakota Does it's First (2) Tow(s)
Thursday, April 23, 2009, I had my first test of towing with the AeroCap on, towing my electricfly to The Great Vehicle Adventure Show and then again back home after the show on Saturday, April 25th!The Ride was pretty decent, even though I could not see the little guy - I could feel him back there on every bump and wiggle through the hitch and draw bar to the truck!
We took the little car over to the Toronto Congress Centre, and dropped it off Thursday night, came over after work on Friday to load it into the North building, and were back Saturday morning with our Cards, Flyer's, and Handouts to show the car.
After the show - I drove the electricfly out and onto a spot in the front of the building, so I could line the truck up in front of it, and hook up. Once we got that done (in the Rain or thunderstorm we had still going on), then we boogied off to home, and dropped the car off on a side street - where we took the accompanying photos.
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