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Save money on gas

Hypermiling can even make fuel-sipping gas-electric hybrid cars more efficient. Here are some Hypermiling techniques that can help you save money on gas.

* Pump up tires to the maximum
* Use engine oil of a low viscosity
* Keep the speed down as much as possible
* Accelerate gently* Avoid using excessive idling
* Removing cargo racks to also cut down on aerodynamic drag

Some Hypermilers say the technique of "pulse and glide", can get over 100 mpg in Toyota Prius.To save gas, the "pulse and glide" is a technique in which you accelerate and then coast with the engine off until around 15 mph when you kick the engine back on and accelerate again. It's the automotive equivalent of skateboarding.

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TOP 5 Hypermiling Techniques:

Hypermiling has arrived in the United States amid skyrocketing gas prices. No, hypermiling is not using your car to attain warp speed, as some deranged Star Trek fans might contend. It is a set of driving techniques which will help you attain the optimum gas mileage out of your car. Proponents of hypermiling contend you can get 35%+ better fuel mileage by modifying your driving style.

So what exactly are these gas saving tricks? Here’s TakePart’s Top 5 Hypermiling Techniques:

1. Always know what your gas mileage is at each visit to the pump. - If you have a more new fangled car that will calculate gas mileage for you, great. But if not, it’s time to start keeping records and figuring out precisely what kind of mileage you’re getting. The first step to improving fuel efficiency is knowing what your mileage is.

2. Keep your tires properly inflated. - Saggy tires cause more friction with the road and make your engine have to work that much harder. Ever tried biking around with half filled tires? Same concept with your car.

3. Stop driving aggressively. - Rapid acceleration and deceleration are the enemies of hypermiling. Start planning ahead more in your velocity changes and smoothing into speeding up and slowing down. Putting the pedal to the metal burns an inordinate amount of unnecessary gas. Likewise, fast braking and deceleration is a waste of the energy you’ve already built up. Try slowly accelerating and building up speed when starting up from stop. Conversely try and gently coast into stops as much as you can, safely of course.

4. Spend as little time stopped as possible. - This is something we all want anyway when on the road, but hypermiling dictates it for fuel efficiency reasons. When you’re stopped you’re getting absolutely ZERO MPG, but you’re still idling and burning gas. Worse yet, being stopped causes your engine to do the absolute most work in order to get back going again. If you’re in traffic try (SAFELY) and avoid coming to a complete stop if you can. Likewise if you see a red light up ahead see how gently you can slowly (SAFELY) decelerate and possibly be able to keep a little momentum for when the light turns green.

5 . Use Cruise Control. - When cruising along on the highway, USE CRUISE CONTROL set at your desired speed. This will eliminate all the speed shifts your body will do manually, often without you even knowing it, which eat up gas. It also eliminates a concept called “speed creep” which is the tendency of people to slowly accelerate while on the highway. Ever look down at the dash and wonder how on earth you got up to 85 mph? That’s “speed creep”. Also, obviously setting your cruising speed lower, say 65 instead of 80 for example, will help you save more gas.

You can by learning more about Hypermiling from the good folks at hypermiling.com, a website dedicated to the techniques and practice of getting the most fuel efficiency out of your car by changing driving behavior.