July Challenge - Day 3

This is the final leg of the trip and time to bring it all together. The drive was completed on Wednesday but I haven't had a chance to log the details until now.

Starting in Nashville, TN, I decided not to begin the day with a full tank of gas and instead drove on to Louisville for lunch time. This was still fairly mountainous terrain, but not nearly as bad as the day before. The first picture on the right shows the ScanGauge suggesting the leg (CTM) ended with 42.1 mpg. I filled the car with fuel and the total miles travelled was 297.2 miles with 7.781 gallons added back to the tank, resulting in 38.19 mpg (basically from Chattanooga to Louisville). Obviously the ScanGauge wasn't giving perfect results.

I then drove the length of Indiana, one of the flattest states in the country, before arriving in Chicago. I drove through Indianapolis during local rush hour traffic at 5:00pm, and I had stop and go traffic in Chicago around I-80/I-294 around 7:00pm. The final ScanGauge reading is shown on the right for this leg. The total miles travelled this time was 296.1 miles with 7.679 gallons added back to the tank - resulting in 38.56 mpg for the tank.