| HYPERMILING - FACT OR FICTION? | | | | dangerous or even illegal in certain areas and is not a |
| Hypermiling is the latest buzz word in the motoring | | | | recommended way to save money on gas. |
| world as more and more people realise they need to | | | | DOES HYPERMILING WORK? |
| save money on gas costs. We have all seen those | | | | If you ask a typical "hypermiler" if they are saving |
| prices going up and up recently and with prices | | | | gas money you can be fairly certain they are. If you |
| expected to keep rising we all need to look for ways | | | | followed just a few of the hypermiling techniques |
| to save gas money. Hypermiling is a way to save | | | | you will save money on gas too. The question to ask |
| money on gas using a whole variety of techniques, | | | | yourself is how much do you really want to save. If |
| some of them conventional and some of them less | | | | you can use all the safe hypermiling techniques |
| than conventional. A whole group of people have | | | | available you can certainly save up to 40% of your |
| now become dedicated to the benefits of hypermiling | | | | fuel costs. Many "hypermilers" have said that once |
| and have seen their fuel consumption figures improve | | | | they start using a few hypermiling techniques and |
| by up to 40%. | | | | start seeing results they quickly want to learn some |
| WHAT IS HYPERMILING? | | | | more to save money on gas. |
| Hypermiling is quite simply a range of simple and | | | | JUST 3 WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON GAS |
| inexpensive ways to boost your mileage and save | | | | COSTSDid you know that using the air conditioning |
| money on gas. A typical "hypermiler" would try and | | | | on its coldest setting in your car could reduce your |
| match the fuel consumption of a hybrid vehicle using | | | | mileage by up to 25%. Or driving your car with the |
| a car with a conventional engine. In some cases | | | | roof rack on could reduce your fuel consumption by |
| those driving a hybrid car using hypermiling techniques | | | | up to 9%. And accelerating too fast away from a |
| have increased their fuel consumption to over | | | | junction could see your fuel consumption drop by as |
| 100mpg! | | | | much as 30%! |
| In general hypermiling is considered to be very safe | | | | If all you do is just stop doing these three things you |
| as a typical hypermiling driver seems to be more | | | | are certain to save money on gas. If you start to |
| aware of the outside conditions. However some | | | | become dedicated to the art of hypermiling then you |
| hypermiling techniques can be considered a little | | | | are certain to save a lot more. And with the price |
| dangerous and should be avoided. For example some | | | | reaching $4 dollars a gallon and possible rising to |
| hypermilers would increase their tire pressure by | | | | £6 we all need to start hypermiling! |
| more than 20lbs. Something like this can be | | | | |