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Hypermiling is increasingly growing in popularity and hypermilers are increasingly getting together to share tips, maintain blogs, organize hypermiling competitions, organize scientific studies on hypermiling, one can almost say that it is is slowly becoming a fixation. As Wayne Gerdes a leading American hypermiler says, hypermiling is all about getting better mileage than the official recorded average mileage and working to increase it as far as possible. 

Hypermiling is not just about having a cheaper car to drive, but radically changing the way you drive and maintain your car as well as totally changing the way you think about it, as Wayne says, it’s a paradigm shift in the way you think about cars. 

Most people go through the misconception that they are stuck at the rated mileage of their cars but by following the techniques that hypermilers use you can almost double your mileage. You can start off with the basic techniques like minimizing unnecessary weight from your car like an additional tyre and jack, switching off the air conditioner, keeping windows rolled up while driving to minimize the air resistance, not idling your engine at a drive-through, switching your engine off at traffic lights, choosing traffic routes with fewer turns and uphill stretches. You can also minimize fuel consumption by planning your route to avoid stopping and starting in order to save fuel. 

More advanced techniques include installing computerized gauges to measure your mileage accurately, so you can pinpoint the exact areas where you are spending more fuel. If you are an experienced driver, a popular hypermiling technique is to coast in neutral for long stretches of time on your cars initial momentum. It is of note however that this technique has a lot of safety implications and should not be attempted unless you are an experienced driver. It is also important to maintain a constant speed and not accelerating and decelerating any more than absolutely necessary to increase mileage. For those willing to experiment, you can try mixing two ounces of pure acetone for ten gallons of fuel, as this technique improves combustion, drastically improves mileage by 40-50%, and increases engine longevity.  

These techniques combined with a lot of coasting enable you to achieve unbelievable mileage levels of 180-190 miles per gallon! Now that is a lot of fuel saved where the average mileage is around 20 miles per gallon! If we manage to save even a little bit of fuel, and every body chips in, the world will most definitely be a greener place and we will have fuel reserves to last us longer.