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Originally Posted by imjeff
Which hypermiling techniques are you using? Having never heard the term until I read your post I looked it up. It explains some of the driving I've seen lately. We used to run vacuum gauges to help with economy (during the 70's fuel "shortage").
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The route I have to drive has a lot of hills, so most of it is just coasting down all the hills I can maintain speed on and doing the pulse and glide thing for those where I can't quite maintain speed. I think that's probably making the biggest difference for me right now. Besides that, I try to keep my speed down to 55-60 and use the pulse and glide method for stoplight-to-stoplight stuff in town.
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Originally Posted by TJ's Chevy
What he means by "hypermiling" is that he waits for a semi truck to come up behind him...then he lets it push him down the road while he's in neutral with the engine off.  |
I know you're kidding, but some of the more hardcore hypermilers will actually draft large trucks.
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ting-3164.html
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Originally Posted by argonaut
What size tires are you running? They look fairly tall.
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32" 235/85R16 recapped mud tires @ 660 revs per mile. The truck runs 2,700RPM @ 60.
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Originally Posted by joedoh
hypermiling! great stuff.
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Yeah, I think it's kind of fun. And it's certainly not the least logical thing in the world to be doing when you have to drive 75 miles or more every day (soon to be 110!).