***** Wayne Gerdes ***** makes News in Major Magazine:

:woot: That is right as the Header reads, Wayne Gerdes (Xcel) that we all know and Love. (Well-Kinda). He has really made the Headlines this time.

For those of you that were at the 2006 Hybridfest this year, you might remember that there was a magazine writer there by the name of Dennis. He is from New York and flew down to Chicago to write the article on Hypermiling with Wayne as the Hypermiling Champ or certainly as one of the Hypermiling Champs. To continue on Dennis just called me this afternoon and said he had sold the article he wrote to "Mother Jones". Their home office is in San Francisco, California. I also received a call from "Mother Jones" by a person by the name of (Koshlan Mayer) that works there. He wanted to go over some of the Facts of the article that Dennis had wrote and Sold to them. We talked for awhile and went over the article and the facts within it.

I just hung up talking to Wayne Gerdes (Xcel) and he shared with me that last Thursday the photographers from "Mother Jones" were at his home in Chicago taking pictures of him for the Magazine. They are returning this Thursday to complete the pictures for "Mother Jones" and the article that will be coming out in January-February issue. These dates are not set in concrete but they are the opinion of Koshlan that works out of the Home Office in California. So if he is right we will be reading about Wayne in the months to come.

As I understand it the article that was written by Dennis out of New York is almost complete with very few things cut out for the Magazine. So Dennis did a just sensational job of writing his article for "Mother Jones", for them to leave it virtually uncut. Dennis we here at www.CleanMPG.com all want to Thank-You for the excellent job you did on Hypermiling with Wayne Gerdes and hope you will continue to have a most properous writing career. It was our pleasure in getting to meet you in person. You have added something to www.CleanMPG.com that money could not buy. Thanks-Again.

So everyone I guess we will all get to read this Article in the Months to come and see what pictures are being shot of one of the "Administrators" Hypermilers of CleanMPG.
This should be very Interesting I think to read about one of our own that has made it into the {Big Time}. Everyone that picks up one of these magazines when they come out could be another member here on www.CleanMPG or to take this a step further they could very well pass this on to Family Members and Friends, Coworkers and the list just keeps on going. Could this mean that CleanMPG might very well be the up and coming Hypermiling Forum on the Net? :bananajump:

The possibilities here are just endless. So I say to Wayne Gerdes, here is a Big :woot:

tiger

BTW, How about all of you readers and members here joining me in saying "Congrats" to Wayne for a job well done:

 

Terry, any friend of Wayne's is a friend of mine. He is a man that can be trusted and a man of good judgement IMHO. The fact that he is gifted and talented adds to his personal friendship with others. The best of the best, know Wayne is KING Of KINGS when it comes to FE. Those of you that know him in person, know he is a humble guy that will do his best to help others.

Mother Jones hit a goldmine buying that article and CMPG needs to know how lucky they are to have Wayne as an Administrator. Congrads to Mother Jones for seeing what many of us already know about Wayne.

GaryG

 

LOL, congrats man.

 

I've been scanning www.motherjones.com for a hit....probably jumped the gun.

 

Careful there, man. You don't want to throw your back out.

I don't care what you say or said in the article, I'm still taking credit for his Prius purchase.

Seriously, congrats Wayne. I kept telling my wife, "but Wayne's a superstar in the Hypermiling circles" but she never really cared that much. Now I'll be able to show her the magazine and say, "see? And I know this guy."

Of course I'll bring it by the house so you can autograph it.

 

Tony. Try to dig up the washington post article. Thats the one I find most impressive. He may only get a mention, but it declared him worlds greatest hypermiler.

 

I guess you mean this one:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/03/AR2006080301403.html

 

Here is "Wayne Gerdes" in another Article: The Washington Post
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How To

Increase Your Gas Mileage

By Joshua Zumbrun
Washington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, August 6, 2006; Page M05

There was good news and bad news, I learned. The good news: I got a promotion. The bad news: I landed in The Post's Howard County news bureau -- a wonderful spot, but about 35 miles from my front door.

This was last summer. I didn't own a car, the job started in two weeks, gas prices were climbing, and a 70-mile commute (instead of 10 friendly minutes on the Circulator bus) was looking expensive.


The Insight, Honda's two-seater hybrid with amazing gas mileage, sounded almost too good to be true. A lot of reports said it was -- real drivers don't get the numbers Honda touts. (The Department of Energy has a useful site explaining why this is at http://www.fueleconomy.gov./ ) The cars were scarce, so I flew to Wisconsin to become the proud owner of a 2001 Honda Insight, with an estimated 57 mpg in the city, 56 on the highway.

That's where I randomly met Bradlee Fons, an enthusiast of the cars who starts spouting hybrid statistics the moment he introduces himself. He and his son Justin are part of a rare fraternity: hypermilers, people who modify their driving to improve mileage and reduce emissions.

Fons explained that you need to "relearn how to drive" in order to appreciate a hybrid's benefits. After averaging around 48 mpg on my way home -- good, but not what was advertised -- I logged onto Insight Central and GreenHybrid.com, two sites Fons had recommended to learn the ins and outs of hypermiling. The sites are full of people obsessed with their mileage gauges, people who log their mileage on each tank of gas, even people who photograph the odometer and post it online to show off particularly successful runs.

Fons also suggested I talk to someone he's dubbed "America's greatest hypermiler," Wayne Gerdes.

The nuclear power plant operator in Illinois ("producing electricity with zero greenhouse gas emissions," Gerdes observed) averaged more than 90 mpg for more than a year driving a manual transmission Honda Insight. He was part of a team that drove a Toyota Prius for more than 1,200 miles, in two straight days of driving, on a single tank of gas, an effort that was featured in an HBO Earth Day Special "Too Hot Not to Handle."

Gerdes says he has always kept records for every vehicle he's owned. Tired of paying for gas, he started watching the way he drove in his Toyota Corolla, thinking about the physics of driving and experimenting with ways to improve mileage. "I hit 52 mpg in my Corolla and I said, 'Wow, this is pretty special. I bet there's more.' "
Turns out, there's a lot more. And the handful of driving tips that I adopted worked wonders. On a recent drive home from work, I checked the odometer as I coasted across the Key Bridge: 82 miles since leaving home that morning, or 75.6 miles per gallon.

From Georgetown to Columbia, and back -- on barely a gallon of gas.
Want to know more about hypermiling? Join Joshua Zumbrun for an online chat Monday at noon at http://www.washingtonpost.com.

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Hypermiling Techniques[/SIZE][/FONT]

Hypermiling is all about making adjustments to maximize your gas mileage, and many techniques work whether you're driving a hybrid or a Hummer.
"Anybody can be a hypermiler. It doesn't matter if you're in a Dodge Durango getting 10 mpg today. You can get 15 mpg tomorrow," says Wayne Gerdes. "It's going to save fuel. And this country needs that."

Below are some common hypermiling suggestions -- and an expert's view on whether the technique is smart and safe. We asked auto expert Pat Goss -- owner of Goss' Garage in Seabrook, commentator for PBS's "Motorweek," and host of a regular chat on washingtonpost.com -- to weigh in on what works.
DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT​

Expert's take : Goss says that as you go above 38 mph in most cars, you lose mileage. For every 5 mph above 55, he says you can lose as much as 10 percent of your fuel economy. So slowing down can save you gas.​

DRIVING WITHOUT BRAKES (or in hypermiling lingo, "d.w.b.") is all about coasting. Congestion is constant in Washington, and accelerating from zero to 20, then back to zero, is inefficient. Instead, if the car in front of you is speeding up, maintain a steady speed and let it get ahead of you, when traffic starts to slow back down you'll catch up.​

Expert's take: Do it when possible -- but be careful. "You're probably going to have some highly ticked off people if you do it on the Beltway," Goss warns.​

TURN OFF YOUR CAR AND COAST , aka the "forced-auto stop." In hybrids, the internal combustion engine shuts off at stops to conserve fuel; the electric batteries keep the car running. To save even more fuel when decelerating, some hypermilers -- including Gerdes -- shift to neutral and turn off the engine while coasting to a stop.​

Expert's take: "Highly dangerous. You don't have your car under control," says Goss. (In other words, not all hypermiling techniques are good ones.)​

OPTIMIZE YOUR ROUTE : Avoid big hills or stop-and-go traffic. Test different routes to see which is the smoothest ride. Sometimes, a longer route with better driving conditions uses less gas.​

Expert's take: "Basic driving techniques. I teach this the first day," Goss says.​

WATCH YOUR TIRE PRESSURE . It takes a lot of extra energy to move even slightly flat tires. Some hypermilers recommend over-inflating tires.​

Expert's take: Goss says this works but is very risky. "When you over-inflate a tire, you can compromise its traction and . . . make the tire wear out more rapidly," he says, adding that it could be "very negligent to recommend that someone do that."​

STAY ON TOP OF OIL CHANGES , and use thinner oil.​

Expert's take: "It can have a significant effect on fuel economy, especially as the oil ages," Goss says. "The viscosity of engine oil is always increasing. . . . The thicker the oil is the harder it is to push through the engine."
-- J.Z.​

 

Nice, my parents subscribe to Mother Jones so I'll get to read it when it comes out. They will probably call me and tell me about it when they read it and I'll say, oh yeah I knew about that 4 months ago!

 

congrats, wayne. i am proud to be in such great company

 

Way to go Wayne! I am honored to know and have been taught by someone of your standing.

 

How big of a publication is "mother jones" I've never heard of it until I started hanging around with you radicals

 

I guess that is the zine you find your MOJO

 

Don't forget to let us know here what issue when your parents tell you about it.

tiger