“Hypermiling” Or How To Get Better Gas Mileage Or Put You Life At Risk
Posted by Tom Remington on May 9, 2008
Here’s an article in the Washington Post about obsessed people who try most anything to extend the distance they can go on a tank of gas in their cars - whether a conventional or hybrid.
You need to read the entire piece but here are the titles to “techniques” hypermilers use:
1). Driver the Speed Limit
2). Turn off Your Car and Coast (not recommended)
3). Optimize Your Route
4). Watch Your Tire Pressure
5). Change Your Oil (and use thinner oil)
Sound a bit absurd some of it? Don’t tell that to a hypermiler.
Tom Remington
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Yeah, some of it, particularly turning off the car while coasting to a stop, sounds crazy. On the other hand, if you’d told me two years ago that I would some day pay $3.65 per gallon for gas, I’d have told you that was absurd too.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:25 pm