msirach
08-03-2008, 10:14 AM
As gas prices rise, a new kind of driver is emerging: the hypermiler, or "nempimaniac," the Japanese term for someone crazy about fuel economy. (http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=4358999699da23324916e545b78fff87)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Gas_nozzle_to_the_head.jpgPeter Micek - New America Media - Aug 3, 2008
Interesting look at the non-hypermilers take… Wrong links of course but who are we to say ;) -- Ed.
SAN FRANCISCO -- My younger sister hates it when my parents drive her car. They move the seat, the mirrors, and change the radio station, but that's not what irks her.
It's the gas mileage.
Our family's Honda Civic Hybrid tracks your miles per gallon and averages it as you drive. When you apply the brakes or just step off the gas, and the engine stops working, the meter (needle) flies all the way to the right – maximum fuel economy. Your average goes up.
But when you hit the gas pedal and accelerate, your miles-per-gallon – and hard-won MPG average – drops. If this sounds like a video game, it is. Sometimes you have to remind yourself to watch the road.
The miles-per-gallon my sister Jordan coaxes out of the hybrid is more than twice her age, up to 43 miles per gallon. My parents, she complains, don't get that much.
Without knowing it, and without anyone telling her to do it, she started down the "hypermiler" road before she could enter a bar and order a drink. I'd call her a "nempimaniac," the Japanese term for those crazy about fuel economy, but I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea… http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=4358999699da23324916e545b78fff87
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Gas_nozzle_to_the_head.jpgPeter Micek - New America Media - Aug 3, 2008
Interesting look at the non-hypermilers take… Wrong links of course but who are we to say ;) -- Ed.
SAN FRANCISCO -- My younger sister hates it when my parents drive her car. They move the seat, the mirrors, and change the radio station, but that's not what irks her.
It's the gas mileage.
Our family's Honda Civic Hybrid tracks your miles per gallon and averages it as you drive. When you apply the brakes or just step off the gas, and the engine stops working, the meter (needle) flies all the way to the right – maximum fuel economy. Your average goes up.
But when you hit the gas pedal and accelerate, your miles-per-gallon – and hard-won MPG average – drops. If this sounds like a video game, it is. Sometimes you have to remind yourself to watch the road.
The miles-per-gallon my sister Jordan coaxes out of the hybrid is more than twice her age, up to 43 miles per gallon. My parents, she complains, don't get that much.
Without knowing it, and without anyone telling her to do it, she started down the "hypermiler" road before she could enter a bar and order a drink. I'd call her a "nempimaniac," the Japanese term for those crazy about fuel economy, but I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea… http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=4358999699da23324916e545b78fff87