nckzck
06-19-2008, 10:42 AM
Hello all. I live in Calimesa, CA (a city between San Bernardino and Palm Springs). I am an auto enthusiast from a road racing background, and recently discovered your collective intelligent ideas encompassing the hypermiling ideology.
My daily driver (until I can afford to trade it in) is a 2005 Infiniti G35 sedan. Previously, my fuel economy averaged about 21 mpg. By embracing some of the more conservative hypermiling concepts, I received 24.2 mpg from my last tank, computed when I refueled this morning. I am thrilled!
It was simple things that aided the mpg increase, like slowing my pace to the speed limit, accelerating slowly from stops, watching signals farther ahead and gliding as much as possible towards traffic congestion, coasting on down hill sections of highway, etc.
I commute 76 mile a day to work. My commute consists of approx. 20 miles on the freeway, 35 miles on long stretches of rural roads/ two lane highways, and 21 miles of signal controlled street driving where signals ar staggered every quarter of a mile to 1 mile.
My Infiniti is not equipped with a mileage guage (it is a base model), so I do plan on buying a scan guage. I do run the A/C on the way home from work (yesterday it was 99 degrees at 5PM), I run the tires at 38-40 psi, and the car is properly maintained.
Thanks for all of your great fuel saving ideas, and I appreciate being allowed into your community. And please don't flame on me about driving an Infiniti. I am considering a new Honda Civic sedan, but hate the idea of adding a car payment to my budget.
Perry Lindsey
My daily driver (until I can afford to trade it in) is a 2005 Infiniti G35 sedan. Previously, my fuel economy averaged about 21 mpg. By embracing some of the more conservative hypermiling concepts, I received 24.2 mpg from my last tank, computed when I refueled this morning. I am thrilled!
It was simple things that aided the mpg increase, like slowing my pace to the speed limit, accelerating slowly from stops, watching signals farther ahead and gliding as much as possible towards traffic congestion, coasting on down hill sections of highway, etc.
I commute 76 mile a day to work. My commute consists of approx. 20 miles on the freeway, 35 miles on long stretches of rural roads/ two lane highways, and 21 miles of signal controlled street driving where signals ar staggered every quarter of a mile to 1 mile.
My Infiniti is not equipped with a mileage guage (it is a base model), so I do plan on buying a scan guage. I do run the A/C on the way home from work (yesterday it was 99 degrees at 5PM), I run the tires at 38-40 psi, and the car is properly maintained.
Thanks for all of your great fuel saving ideas, and I appreciate being allowed into your community. And please don't flame on me about driving an Infiniti. I am considering a new Honda Civic sedan, but hate the idea of adding a car payment to my budget.
Perry Lindsey