Save Fuel With These Hypermiling Hybrid Strategies
Hypermiling hybrid cars is easy with so many built-in features designed to conserve fuel. For instance, the Ford Fusion has a "regenerative braking system," which recycles 94% of the energy created by braking. Brake pads are said to last three times' longer with this model. Behind the rear seat, there is a battery pack that fuels the car with electric power on speeds up to 47 miles per hour. A powertrain control module is calibrated to ease the transition from gas to electric, so drivers never notice the shift, and since the engine only needs to perform half as much work, owners only need an oil change every 10,000 miles or so, rather than every 3,000. Additionally, hybrid owners say they have a number of other techniques and tricks that help them maximize their gas mileage even more.
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Hypermiling To Save Gas: The Nascar Link
What sort of picture do you get when you think of hypermilers? Perhaps you imagine young people from Berkeley, California or Portland, Oregon, sipping their Fair Trade coffee, operating their homes off solar power and converting their old cars to vegetable oil mods. Or maybe you just imagine that annoying slow-driving person in front of you who seems hardly bothered by the fact they're coasting several car lengths behind everyone else at 10 MPH below the speed limit. What you may not have expected is that Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. uses the hypermiling technique to save gas.
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