What is Hypermiling?
If you read this blog regularly, or have recently started looking into saving gas then you have probably heard the term hypermiling floating around. What is hypermiling, what is a hypermiler, what does it mean to hypermile? This post will help to answer this question for you so that you may stop wondering and start [...]
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Delete Mods for Aerodynamics
As I’m sure you realize aerodynamics play a big factor in the fuel efficiency of your automobile. The simplest way to deal with this is to simply delete many parts, rather than add new ones. A few parts to delete are:
Radio Antenna - If you still want good reception there are aftermarket strips that you [...]
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Hyperinflating Tires for More MPG - Things to Know
It is commonly known that hyperinflating your tires is one of the easiest hypermiling tips to implement in order to get more MPG. This is one of the very first tips covered in my Gas Saver Guide ebook. The basic point is that you should inflate your tires to the maximum PSI on the tire, [...]
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Big Winter Gas Waster - Cold Engine Temp
A big gas waster in the winter time is the cold operating temperature of your engine. When an engine is below, or above, its ideal operating temperature it functions far less efficiently. There are, however, a few things that you can try to get your engine temperature up a bit.
First of all you should be [...]
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Hypermiling - Aerodynamics for More MPG
Aerodynamics are one of the largest hinderances to gas savings. This is due, in large part, to cars being designed to look cool as opposed to be a more aerodynamic ride. With this in mind there are quite a few things that can be done to increase aerodynamics.
Just think about aerodynamics, if you are a [...]
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Pickup Truck Aerodynamic Mod
As most people know pickup trucks are highly lacking in aerodynamics. With some simple mods to the bed you can get far better gas mileage.
The easiest thing to do is simply leave your tailgate down, this prevents it from catching the air and creating drag, but you can take it a step further and get [...]
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Hypermiling: Still Popular
Many people speculated that hypermiling would have all but died with gas prices the way that are today. This is not the case. People see how much more fuel efficient they can really be by using simple hypermiling tips. It is possible that the $4.00 a gallon gas prices which spiked the drastic increase in [...]
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Winter Weather - Saftey is More Important than FE
Safety is more important than fuel efficiency for winter weather. If you are new to winter driving conditions you should consider not practicing any hypermiling techniques, safety is more important than saving a few bucks. I wrote up on article, you guess it - on AC, about some common winter saftey driving:
The winter season brings [...]
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Climbing Hills With a Manual
Many people seem to be a little confused about this. The goal for climbing a hill with a manual transmission car is to be in the highest possible gear. If you are normally in 2nd gear climbing a hill then try it in third, if you are able to climb it without stalling out you [...]
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Buying a New Car: Fuel Economy in Mind
I recently wrote an article in which I compared some of the more popular new cars available in terms of fuel efficiency. It covers hybrids, diesels, and even regular gas cars. You might be surprised at which ones did the best, anyways read it over at AC:
As anyone can see with the recent huge price [...]
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