Some of their habits - such as driving around 50 to 55 mph on the highway and drifting up to red lights at a crawl - have earned hypermilers a few enemies on the road. And wind resistance becomes a bigger problem the faster you go.

Hypermilers also pride themselves on driving at or below the speed limit, since the faster you drive, the more gasoline it takes to maintain momentum and get back up to speed every time you slow down. And they constantly scan far ahead for possible impediments so they don't waste gas getting to them, just to have to brake when they get close. So when hypermilers see a red light ahead, they'll take their foot off the gas and coast toward it. 'But not speeding up to those red lights and not taking off like a jackrabbit at a green light can really add up at the gas pump.' 'It sounds paradoxical because the accelerator and the brake are the two main features of your car,' Cardona said. Since every time you hit the gas, you're using fuel, and every time you brake, you're basically throwing that fuel away, the less either comes into play, the more gas you save. The core of the hypermiler's philosophy is to use both the gas pedal and the brakes as little as possible. So how does one achieve these feats of mileage? The movement's been growing, gathering a lot of momentum, and there is a large pool of folks out there who use some of these techniques.' 'From what we see in terms of response and activity on the Web, we suspect there may be many hundreds of thousands out there. 'We have well over 6,000 registered members worldwide,' said the site's Canadian representative Manuel Santos. In recent years the movement has been growing at breakneck pace, though enthusiasts may call themselves by different names and congregate in various online and real-world communities. All those reasons are good reasons to become a hypermiler.' It doesn't matter if you're concerned with global warming, or smog, or government debt, or if you're worried about putting money in your pocketbook.

'We all have our trigger points - mine was global security. A realistic 1:10 scale model of the BMW ALPINA B4 Bi-Turbo Coupé was programmed with the CAM software hyperMILL and then milled in Aluminum - limited to 22 pieces worldwide.įor more information about hyperMILL, visit: htt A realistic 1:10 scale model of the BMW ALPINA B4 Bi-Turbo Coupé was programmed with the CAM software hyperMILL and then milled in Aluminum - limited to 22 pieces worldwide.'The day after 9/11, I began changing my habits for the better and ever since then I've looked for methods to improve fuel economy,' Gerdes told LiveScience.

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