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Tips to Improve
Your Mileage
Tuesday, July 05, 2016
By NosyMotorist
Fuel saving tips:
- Obey all traffic laws; many of these will indirectly
help you save fuel
- If your car has an economy mode, use it
- Think ahead and avoid intensive braking: gliding down
over 15 seconds uses less fuel than keeping power on and braking for
the last 5 seconds
- On flat ground and uphill, where traffic allows,
accelerate very slowly (less than 1 mile per hour per second)
- Downhill, gravity will allow you to accelerate more
rapidly and still realize short-term mileage of 35-40 mpg
- Without violating traffic laws retain as much speed
as possible when turning onto another road ( accelerating from zero
requires a lot of fuel )
- Bank a few miles per hour when going downhill (at
higher MPG) so you can siphon them off (by slowly dropping to your
average speed) as you are reaching the top of the next hill
- On flat and slightly downslope routes, use cruise
control; it is much more sensitive than you at maintaining low throttle
input
- When are going from flat to a hill, cancel cruise
control before it surges to maintain your speed, the few miles per hour
that you lose can be regained going down the other side of the hill,
where you can reengage cruise
- Merging on and off freeways, use the onramp
to your advantage --Most onramps are long enough that with a 20 mile
per hour head start, your car can be at the speed limit by the time you
reach the merge --Exiting a freeway, uphill offramps can be used to
absorb speed; so you coast up the ramp and slowly come to a stop
Nothing can dramatically increase
your fuel economy, but these tips can afford you the few percent
improvement to get more distance on each tank of fuel
P.S.
You can compare fuel economy
of different models at https://www.fueleconomy.gov
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