You might also see this referred to as ’stop shutdown’, ’stop light shutdown’, or ‘SLSD’. Most of us have seen a version of this technique… when you are at a railroad crossing and you can see that the train will be passing for several minutes many people will turn their car off. Hypermilers do this [...]
Mini Cooper owners report real world MPG numbers averaging between 25-28 MPG.
The official Mini Cooper website says it will get between 37 MPG city and 28 MPG highway.
It does this with the following setup:
The 2008 Mini Cooper and Mini Cooper Convertible models are fitted with a 1.6 liter four cylinder engine producing 118 horsepower (HP) [...]
Here’s what Wayne Gerdes recently had to say about the hypermiler trick of drafting:
Q: What about drafting – following a large vehicle to reduce wind resistance?
A: Drafting is like NASCAR. Don’t do that on the road or you’ll be dead.
You really can’t get much more explicit than that.
Drafting is the most controversial [...]
Want to look like a hero? Visit one of the ten worst cities on this list and show them your new hypermiling superpowers. I found this in a story on CNNMoney.
50 Best and worst-ranked cities to weather an oil crisis
Public transit use, telecommuting, bike and walk rates were most heavily weighted
Top 10 Cities
Bottom 10 [...]
NPR aired a story on Morning Edition on June 9th about hypermiling. I had saved the link to write about it later and when I told my girlfriend about it she said she had heard it that morning on the radio. More and more people must be asking “What is hypermiling?” if NPR is covering [...]
Every hypermiler probably has a different technique for pulsing and gliding, but each of them shares at least some methods in common.
First, like this post from last year about the pulse and glide hypermiling technique from MetroMPG.com, we begin with a disclaimer,
Upfront, any discussion of pulse & glide (P&G) almost always includes a disclaimer that [...]
Reuters had a pretty good article on hypermiling and hypermiling techniques a few weeks ago. The article also mentions the nearly omnipresent (at least in hypermiling articles) Wayne Gerdes. The authors claim that drafting is a popular method used by hypermilers but I think this would be widely disputed.
Known as ‘hypermiling,’ the method can double [...]
You can calculate your vehicle’s MPG in just 4 steps by:
Step 1. Filling the vehicle’s gas tank completely and writing down the vehicle’s odometer reading (mileage).
Example: The last time the tank was filled, the odometer reading was 32,645.1 miles.
Step 2. When it’s time to refuel, filling the tank completely and writing down the [...]
Here are is an incomplete list of some vehicle models that would make good hypermiling cars:
Ford Focus
Mercedes-Benz E320 Bluetec
Nissan Sentra
Pontiac G5
Cheverolet Aveo
Geo Prizm
Toyota Corolla
Honda Accord
Toyota Prius
Here are the most (and least) fuel efficient cars as ranked by the Federal Government at FuelEconomy.gov:
2008 [...]
Below are some hypermiling guides from around the net. Keep in mind that hypermiling techniques are debated by different hypermilers and that you should do some research before implementing any techniques. Be especially careful if a technique sounds unsafe. What’s more important, gas mileage or your well being?
The Ultimate Guide to Hypermiling: [...]