tried some pulse and glide last night

[BailOut]

Originally Posted by PK198105

and what are the results? i believe some hypermiling techniques are overkill and down right dangerous, just my 2 cents

I see things on the road every day that are far more dangerous than hypermiling. At least hypermiling forces you to pay attention to the road while just about everything else one can do in a car does the opposite.

Coming into a fuel economy forum and bashing hypermiling would be akin to me going into the cosmetic forum and going on about rice and stupidity, or going into the performance forum and going on about diminishing returns and stupidity, etc. I and those like me leave those forums alone and we expect the same courtesy here in the FE forum.

Originally Posted by thebarber

as a note on pulse and glide, i test drove an HHR today....has a built-in economy thingamajigger, and i could really see how the pulse and glide dropped the fuel useage when youre off the gas....vs the 8 or 9L/100km it was like 1L/100km off the gas

I understand that P&G takes work, but going from 9 to 11L/km is a gain of over 20% FE! Over the course of a tank, or a month, or a year, that is huge savings, not only for your wallet but in emissions, too.

[thebarber]

Originally Posted by BailOut

I see things on the road every day that are far more dangerous than hypermiling. At least hypermiling forces you to pay attention to the road while just about everything else one can do in a car does the opposite.

Coming into a fuel economy forum and bashing hypermiling would be akin to me going into the cosmetic forum and going on about rice and stupidity, or going into the performance forum and going on about diminishing returns and stupidity, etc. I and those like me leave those forums alone and we expect the same courtesy here in the FE forum.




I understand that P&G takes work, but going from 9 to 11L/km is a gain of over 20% FE! Over the course of a tank, or a month, or a year, that is huge savings, not only for your wallet but in emissions, too.

well, its was 9 to 1 L/100km - - so like 90% savings over regular flat ground driving

i was pretty amazed...

fredericton is quite hilly though going from downtown to uptown....so that 1L/100km going downhill is outweighed by the 34L/100km going up, lol

but i see how it can work for highway commuting...