{"id":290,"date":"2008-06-23T05:52:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T11:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-06-23T05:52:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T11:52:26","slug":"hypermiling-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Hypermiling Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying some hypermiling driving techniques and seeing improvement in my mileage so far. It takes a lot more concentration than traditional driving, but it seems to work. My current goal is to break 300 miles on one tank, which I haven&#8217;t done in months. The essence of the driving technique is to coast as much as possible and apply the gas or brakes as little as possible. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As soon as you know you&#8217;ll have to stop ahead at a stopsign or light, take your foot off the gas and coast. Your tachometer might still show greater than idle RPMs, but the fuel flow will be idle fuel only.<\/li>\n<li>When approaching a hill, speed up gently at the bottom and coast up the hill.<\/li>\n<li>Coast downhill when possible.<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t have much traffic nearby, &#8220;pulse and glide&#8221;. Pick a target speed, accelerate gently to slightly over your target, and then coast until your speed drops a bit below your target. Make sure no one is behind you because this is highly annoying to other drivers.<\/li>\n<li>When you accelerate, pay attention to how hard your engine is working by watching the tachometer, listening to your engine, and noticing how much torque you feel. If you&#8217;re pressed back in your seat and approaching redline on the tach, you&#8217;re having fun but wasting tons of gas. I try to keep my engine below 2500 rpm.<\/li>\n<li>Time your lights. Stopping and starting burns more fuel than maintaining a constant speed, and it&#8217;s annoying!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying some hypermiling driving techniques and seeing improvement in my mileage so far. It takes a lot more concentration than traditional driving, but it seems to work. My current goal is to break 300 miles on one tank, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}