The tree loving folks at TreeHugger have literally taken the ScanGauge out for a spin in their Ford E150 van, driving it all the way from Philadelphia to Wisconsin and back. Here’s what they have to say about it.
ScanGauge makes the reality of mileage variation painfully obvious to even the least mechanically minded driver. Teens in the van were initially shocked that stepping on the gas after a stop light turns green, or on an uphill course of highway, leads to instantaneous mileage in the 3 to 5 range. Accelerating slowly…painfully slowly if you are a teen I would imagine…raises instantaneous mileage to the 8 to 10 range. This simple information feedback was a big attention getter. Hopefully, the doors to efficiency understanding were permanently opened. That said, a still more powerful feature of ScanGauge is the ability to average mileage by preceding hour(s), days, and weeks. Taking turns driving on our cross country trip, I were able to demonstrate at our rest stops, with hard numbers, who the most efficient drivers were and who the least efficient drivers were.
Well, now you have a device that lets you know exactly who’s the culprit with a lead leg, pressing the accelerator down most of the time.
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