Survey: Do You Eco-drive/ Hypermile?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 09. 5.08
We call it hypermiling; others call it eco-driving, which sounds like a contradiction in terms to me, but whatever, it does save fuel- lots of it. Ford recently did a test where they trained 48 drivers in eco-driving techniques (smoother braking and accelerating, monitoring RPMs and moderate speed) and they boosted fuel economy by 24%. (credit: Tyler Hamilton)
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