Thule Roof Rack Gas Mileage

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Thule roof rack gas mileage.

Thule edge and thule evo. Berkeley lab says that roof racks cause as much as a 25 percent loss in fuel economy and accounted for almost 1 percent of national consumption in 2015. 5 6 l 100 km approx. The next generation of roof racks.

This editor many years ago in a move across the country to oregon from michigan found that the highway mileage of a four cylinder accord dropped from more than 40 mpg down to 32 mpg with a. Didn t track that closely last time i did a long drive with boats on the roof but i think it was a slightly worse than with bikes. 42 mpg roof rack with thule dynamic 800 aerodynamic cargo box. Constantly aiming at staying one step ahead and working closely together with the car industry thule introduces a new generation of roof rack systems.

The roof rack mpg experiment he compared the gas mileage of his car at 54 7 mph 88 kph with 1 no roof racks 2 an empty roof rack and 3 a mountain bike on the roof rack. He found that compared to the baseline of no roof rack the empty rack reduced his mpg by 12 7 and the roof rack with a bicycle reduced it by a whooping 27 3. The empty roof rack had a nearly 2 percent impact on fuel economy which translates to a little more than three quarters of a gallon of gas. 6 0 l 100 km approx.

Off the showroom floor the regal tourx gets 21 miles per gallon in the city and 29 mpg highway for a combined fuel economy of 24 mpg. Car was getting 26 27 mpg. 39 mpg thus the cargo box on the roof increased fuel consumption by about 5 compared to the baseline. 5 9 l 100 km approx.

With the racks on and bikes on the roof it is 24 25. The control test the tourx without roof rails.