Stories tagged with "hypermiling"
An immodest proposal about fuel efficiency
Posted by Big Gav on June 10, 2008 - 5:00pm in The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand
Topic: Demand/Consumption
Tags: hypermiling, transportation [list all tags]
Recently there have been a few articles on hypermiling - driving your car to make the most efficient use of fuel. They mention taking junk out of your car so it has less weight in it, not hitting the accelerator hard, and so on. What's remarkable is that none of these articles suggested, "don't drive". Not even "don't drive so much." So that is my immodest proposal: "Don't drive, or at least not so much." I realise that this is insane radicalism, but there you go.
"But I need to drive! I have no options!"
"Perhaps. But do you need to drive so much? Is every kilometre you drive essential?"
Improving Mileage: "Hypermiling"
Posted by Heading Out on June 5, 2008 - 10:30am
Topic: Demand/Consumption
Tags: fuel economy, hypermiling [list all tags]
“So, how many miles does it get?” It was a Sunday morning, and we were looking at my car, and so I mentioned that I had started to change the way I drove. As a result (driven by a little monitor display) I was now getting about 10 – 20% better mileage than the estimate I was given when I bought the car. “Yup,” said the pickup driver I was talking with, “I’ve started doing the same sort of thing. Slow down a bit, don’t accelerate as hard, the little things. And you know what?” He went on, “ a lot of other folk have started driving that way too. Of course you’ve still got the hot rods, but in general . . . .” Of course it helps that we live in a relatively small town, in more of a rural setting.


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