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Ford Fusion Hybrid Gets 81.5 MPG in Hypermiling Challenge 21.
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The fun is all in the hypermiling.
Not exact matches
In fact our flirtation with hypermiling was short - lived.
Instead of failed burnouts and stoplight drag races, my first encounters with the joy of driving consisted of hypermiling in EV mode and maximizing regenerative braking.
«You're gonna blow the EPA out of the water,» hypermiling expert Wayne Gerdes tells us before the start in Albuquerque.
I figured plenty of others would be bragging about hypermiling at that evening's dinner (and, in fact, several drivers exceeded 70 mpg), so I decided instead to drive a 2010 Prius as hard and as fast as prudence and nerve allowed along the two - lane roads in and above Napa Valley.
Next time you're in Europe and you're feeling sour about their high fuel costs, try on your hypermiling shoes.
First introduced at the 2017 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the Hyundai HyperEconiq Ioniq is a unique hypermiling - efficiency - oriented concept car.
Driving conservatively (but not hypermiling) over mostly flat ground --- one pass was 1,808 feet high --- we managed 54 miles before the gasoline engine kicked in.
If hypermiling is your thing, there is a Hybrid Camry which starts at an additional $ 3,830 in XLE trim.
After a mix of city and freeway driving and some time spent thrashing around in the hills, CNET's car sipped an average of 30.7 mpg, not bad considering a complete lack of hypermiling technique.
The hypermiling tricks learned to squeeze 49 MPG out of the hybrid (our best tank average) have translated into a 20 % gain in the non-hybrid.
To keep up with a 2 % annual reduction target in this case might involve other stategies such as hypermiling or eco-driving (i.e. fuel - saving driving techniques), or simply reducing annual mileage accordingly.
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In Denmark and Israel, where Better Place has begun to roll out infrastructure and all - electric Renault Fluence Z.E. sedans, an on - board management system called OSCAR is a useful tool to hypermile... and soothe drivers» fears.
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Come to think of it, it's not unlike hypermiling in a car - seeking a more complete union between rider / driver and machine - rather than merely squeezing the life out of it for the fastest possible ride.
«Gerdes estimates that hypermiling has saved him $ 15,000 in fuel since he began the technique after the attacks of September 11, events that convinced him that U.S. national security was being undermined by its dependence on oil from the Middle East, and motivated him to reduce his own fuel consumption.»
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HOWEVER, during the test drive, two other testers decided to hypermile, and they were able to get over 40mpg in city traffic.
For example, the techniques you would use to hypermile a Toyota Prius would differ in some ways when compared to the methods used to hypermile a Chevrolet Suburban.