Yes, a few times now. Fill up outskirts of Melbourne (i.e. Shell Donnybrook) with V-Power or equivalent and aim to fill a near-empty tank if you usually don't use 98 octane (I don't) so you've got that little bit more energy in the tank. It takes smooth driving (but not slow - I'll typically drive at the posted limit within tolerances); not accelerating hard helps a lot. I've made it fairly comfortably to Liverpool in Sydney suburbs with 15km showing on the DTE display in a 2001 V6 Commodore a couple of times. Turned the air-con off about 80k out of Sydney because it was looking dicey for a while. Most recently I made it to Allambie heights (so across the harbour and spit bridge) with 3km range on the DTE in the RX450h. That was very interesting; smooth traffic through to the harbour tunnel, but bad traffic from there; suddenly the DTE dropped from 30km to 15km, and I had 11km to my brother-in-law's house, and another 2km to a servo after dropping the family off. Brother in law's house up a hill, so chewed through the juice and the battery getting there, but coasted back down and charged the battery on the way to the servo; DTE was showing 5km when I pulled up at the pump. Pumped 63 litres (capacity 65, had filled it to the brim in Donnybrook), so 7.44l/100km achieved over 848 kms between fills. Any significant headwind or bad traffic on the highway (i.e. stop start for road works) would have made it impossible.
Has Anyone Done Melbourne-Sydney Or Return On One Tankful?
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Yes, a few times now. Fill up outskirts of Melbourne (i.e. Shell Donnybrook) with V-Power or equivalent and aim to fill a near-empty tank if you usually don't use 98 octane (I don't) so you've got that little bit more energy in the tank. It takes smooth driving (but not slow - I'll typically drive at the posted limit within tolerances); not accelerating hard helps a lot. I've made it fairly comfortably to Liverpool in Sydney suburbs with 15km showing on the DTE display in a 2001 V6 Commodore a couple of times. Turned the air-con off about 80k out of Sydney because it was looking dicey for a while. Most recently I made it to Allambie heights (so across the harbour and spit bridge) with 3km range on the DTE in the RX450h. That was very interesting; smooth traffic through to the harbour tunnel, but bad traffic from there; suddenly the DTE dropped from 30km to 15km, and I had 11km to my brother-in-law's house, and another 2km to a servo after dropping the family off. Brother in law's house up a hill, so chewed through the juice and the battery getting there, but coasted back down and charged the battery on the way to the servo; DTE was showing 5km when I pulled up at the pump. Pumped 63 litres (capacity 65, had filled it to the brim in Donnybrook), so 7.44l/100km achieved over 848 kms between fills. Any significant headwind or bad traffic on the highway (i.e. stop start for road works) would have made it impossible.