[obermd]

Wow sounds like the volt is paying for itself! Have you noticed if your electric bill has gone up since having it and charging it?
91 premium was $2.77 a gallon for me a few days ago. So it's not too bad but it has gone up 30 cents to get there. We do have two new gas stations nearby with price wars keeping it lower than most. We have a 3/4 ton 2015 Silverado for hauling as we live on a small ranch but no longer have the horses and are retired and have a 5th wheel rv now. My husband has a harley freewheeler trike he uses a lot and his best mpg is about 30. I went from a 05 convertable mustang to my 2017 Cruze in Dec ( Xmas gift from hubby). Double the gas milage in savings going from the Stang to the Cruze!

My monthly fueling costs have gone from about $125 in my 2012 ECO MT to $45 with my 2017 Volt. Of that $45, $20 is provided by the Colorado School of Mines in the form of free four hour charging at work each day.

 

[obermd]

The rating doesn't matter. At highway speeds of 75MPH, the Elantra has 10MPG more (60MPG) than the Cruze Eco (50MPG) instant, and at 100MPH it is 10-15MPG better (25 vs 40MPG instant).
At 60MPH they're pretty even.
The larger engine makes that driving at speeds below 50MPH, it'll lose in MPG to a cruze.

How much of the time are you actually driving that fast? Living in a 75 MPH state (Colorado) I still don't see 75 MPH very often - most of the time I'm in 65 MPH or slower zones. My 2012 Cruze ECO MT, after 103,600 miles when USAA bought it from me rather than pay to repair the hail damage, averaged 42.5 pump measured MPG.

You can't depend on "instant" MPG numbers for accurate long term MPG. For example, here are some screen shots from my ECO.

 

[obermd]

I would be much more concerned about a ticket/losing my license. Here in Hellinois you can get a reckless driving ticket for anything more than 20mph over the limit. That's a class A misdemeanor. Up to 1 year in jail and 2500 fine.

In some parts of Texas (85 MPH), Wyoming (80 MPH), and Utah (80 MPH) I can see people cruzing along at 100 MPH. However I don't think this happens very often simply because these areas are also very windy and high speeds combined with high winds makes for a very unstable road feel, regardless of vehicle.

 

[obermd]

I have been real happy with my state and county, until last year and this year. All the April 3rd ballot measures are to add a tax, increase a tax, or not allow one to end that was passed years ago. All these ar for school, police, EMS, fire, etc. So do you really vote that stuff down? Or when is enough enough, my property valuation went up, my insurance has gone up.

Unless they can tell me exactly why they need the money I vote against tax increases. My pay isn't going up, why should the government's?

 

[obermd]

They tell us exactly what it is for, not bad things, but at what point do we say no, no matter what? Our sales tax is 8.975% and some areas are 10%. They could ask for more new taxes if they wouldn't also ask to keep ones going that should expire. I am about to the point to say no on everything.

How am supposed to get ahead when my raise used up by an increase in property tax and insurance.

Even with total disclosure I frequently vote against tax increases.

 

[obermd]

The Elantra I drove had 50MPG at 75MPH instantaneous. My Cruze Eco on the other hand in the same situation, would do about 40-45MPG. With that I mean, the readout over several miles. Not just looking at the highest number, or releasing the throttle and taking a pic of the readout.

You CANNOT use the "instantaneous" MPG numbers for comparison. I frequently saw 99 MPG and 0 L/100KM (no fuel used) on my 2012 ECO MT at all speeds. This just means the car throttled back to maintain the speed. The fact that the Elantra reports throttling back faster than the Cruze means just that - it reporting the throttle back faster. The Cruze only updates this display once a second despite the car being able to do a complete throttle off/on cycle in about half a second. I would even go so far as to say that in my experience, cars that only show only instantaneous MPG numbers mislead the driver into thinking they're getting better fuel economy than they really are. I don't know if the Elantra is doing this but I do know that Hyundai/Kia was caught in 2013 or 2014 cheating on their EPA numbers, resulting in a large fine paid to the EPA and mandatory Visa gift cards to all "original" owners each year to cover the cost differential from the corrected numbers and the originally reported numbers.

In addition, the Elantra is a larger car than the Cruze. More specifically it has a larger frontal area, which increases the amount of horsepower needed to drive at any speed once the car's in top gear. More HP always requires more fuel, regardless of source (gas, diesel, electric, etc.).

From fuelly.com:

Elantra
2018: 30.1 MPG
2017: 31.3 MPG

For the same two model years 2nd Generation Cruze

Cruze
2018: 37.7 MPG
2017: 32.9 MPG

I limited the search to just the two model years to ensure both cars are "single generation".

 

[obermd]

..like I said.. Perhaps just go back and read what I wrote??
It's an instant MPG averaged over a few miles; the same as when you reset your avg MPG while driving, and see the final result after a few miles; but without doing that reset.
It's also at wind still, level ground. Uphill it goes down by 20 or 30 MPG, downhill, it goes up.
50MPG is what I'm getting at a constant speed, level ground, no wind.

Also, the Elantra revs a lot lower (has higher final gear drive) than the Cruze.

Do this and post the results:

Fill your tank to the first click off.
Reset Trip A or Trip B (I don't know if the Elantra has two Trip odometers)
Drive down the highway and then back again to the same station. Make sure you drive at least 50 miles in each direction. You want to drive both ways on the road to eliminate subtle elevation changes from the calculations.
Fill the tank to the first click off at the same pump.

Post a picture of the pump and your odometer. I think you will be surprised to see the calculated fuel economy is significantly lower than your car is reporting.