How to get great mileage from your car

Automobile fuel is getting more and more expensive day by day. Yet our lives have become inseparable from the benefits of automobiles and we cannot think of life without them, making them a necessary evil. The ever increasing price of automotive fuel must surely have made you wonder how to save on fuel costs? A group of people who call themselves hypermilers may have the answer to your questions. Hypermilers are a group of people dedicated to extracting every last mile of mileage from a gallon of fuel so as to minimize costs, and as you may guess, they call the process hypermiling.

By using advanced computer systems and electronic gauges which calculate engine performance and mileage on the move, hypermilers now have data at their fingertips which allow them to analyze the areas where they need to cut down on fuel costs and attack the problem areas. Coupled with traditional methods like carrying no useless weights like a spare tyre, maintaining correct tyre pressure, disabling the air conditioner, keeping windows rolled up, braking less often, avoiding uphill routes, planning routes so there are fewer turns, calculating signal timing to avoid starting and stopping repeatedly (which wastes a lot of fuel) and parking at the top of a slope so you can simply roll down in gear and not waste fuel in starting. Simple modifications like using an internal radio aerial so that the wind blowing against an external one does not increase the drag experienced by the car, and using aerodynamic hub caps to improve the wind flow pattern against the car help to reduce drag and air friction, which in turn helps to save a lot of fuel. They also use fuel additives like acetone which increase fuel efficiency by at least 40-50%. Lots of people think that hypermilers are simply obsessive, but with the increasing availability of computerized gauges, they are now demonstrating their mileage figures which often go past 90 miles per gallon, demolishing all the arguments the sceptics offered.

Hypermiling is increasingly becoming popular as a method of conserving fuel and saving energy costs even with ordinary cars. Hypermilers get a mileage far greater than those offered by today’s hybrids, and the tricks that they use to save costs can be used by any ordinary person who is willing to work a little harder in order to cut automobile fuel costs. Try it today to manage your fuel expenses better and help keep the planet a greener place as Hypermilers help to save burning fossil fuels, which in turn keep the planet healthy.