Tips To Improve Mileage and Fuel Efficiency

January 19, 2010 by TomThomas  
Filed under Hybrid Cars

Now a days public are very accurate looking on the fuel efficiency of the cars that they buy. Recently in Canada a poll was conducted on this and the upshot reveals the fact that public give more substance on the background.

Not only the customers, but also the car makers are now too long-sufferingly effective on that fact of humanizing the fuel efficiency enhancement. They’re effective hard on the enhancement of fuel efficiency by humanizing domestic combustion engine, and thus to reduce greenhouse gas emanation and smog. Also, the manufacturers are into new age assemble cars like gripping cars, hybrid cars, bio-fuels and fuel cells.

According to David Paterson, Vice PResident, Corporate and Environmental Friend, General Motors of Canada, “GM Canada offers more green choices for customers and we are compelling committed role in developing environmental technologies”.

Also well yet to be environmental technologies like hybrid systems and committed fuel management are too effective upon. Additional than these here are some initiatives that a driver can take to boost fuel efficiency:

1.Make sure your routes are elected in such a way to Get out of the conveying congustion.
2.Be concious of your speed Limits.
3.Apply accelerator smoothly.
4.Hegemony your speed to a steady limit.
5.Carrying of luggages must not be in uninvited amount.
6.Accessories installed must be cut-rate.
7.Looked-for maintainance must be performed like air filter cleaning, genteel tyre pressure etc.

Details on running constant IMA on a Honda Insight?

December 19, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Maintenance & Repairs

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Em Diggity questioned:

I found the following on Wikipedia discussion about being paid a larger battery for a Honda Insight and then life able to run the gripping motor constantly, charitable you highway mileage over 100mpg.

Honda hybrids like the Insight are Analogous Hybrids which at first glance would not seem to benefit much from a plug-in hybrid conversion as they do not have an EV-mode like the Toyota Prius. But by using a better battery the 10 kW (13 hp) IMA may maybe be run in a continuous help mode to succeed gas consumption and push the mileage well into the one-hundreds on the freeway. The Insight is a very set alight and polished vehicle which makes it very striking for conversion.

Does anyone know anything about this? How much would a conversion such as this cost?

Do you know of any rental car companies that charge by mileage instead of by days?

December 19, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Other - Cars & Transportation

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Aspiring lead singer questioned:

I have to rent a car for five days but will not be roving very far.

How much should I charge to let a friend “rent” my car?

December 17, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Other - Cars & Transportation

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Megan W questioned:

I will be letting a name use my second vehicle for a few months to handbook to work and run her errands. How would it be best for me to payment her for the use of my car as far as wear and tear, repairs, mileage and gasoline? Must I payment by the mile or a flat rate for treatment? Does anyone have any websites about how much per month it expenditure to keep up a car so that I may maybe payment her that amount?

i want to buy a non-geared bike, my main criteria is high on mileage (and also not a bad lookin bike)?

December 15, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Motorcycles

fuel efficiency

avi1986 questioned:

k i knw goin i nfor a geared bike will give me the mileage i want but i cant buy a geared bike.
so plz help me pick somethin frm the non-geared segment.

i lookin at low running expense i.e 1. fuel efficiency 2.low-cost spares 3.realiable.

A FORD ESCAPE HAS A MILEAGE OF 36 MILES PER GALLON, WHILE a mini cooper uses 8.5 litres per 100 kilometres?

December 15, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Mathematics

fuel efficiency

Keegan b questioned:

Which vehicle has better fuel efficiency? can u show me the unit conversions and how u got the pledge plz. MATH

How does Prius or another byhird cars work?

December 14, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Other - Cars & Transportation

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steve00878 questioned:

Outline for a fleeting time how they work and focus on a fastidious figure you find fresh. Are you impressed with the batteries, or perhaps the regenerative brakes?

And if here is anything in here you just don’t get, question – or tell it in your paper.

Then, take a spot. While hybrids do get better mileage, they aren’t automatically the best – the Smart Car, for model, gets better mileage. And a lot of the equipment in a hybrid is very “dirty,” in a manufacturing implication. It’s honest to say building a Prius makes more pollution than building a ordinary car. So the question is, does hybrid equipment really start a benefit, or are “we” fooling ourselves?

Does temperature influence fuel efficiency?

December 14, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Commuting

fuel efficiency

Kevin B questioned:

austerely when driving. no idling to warm up car. its -4 plus windchill outside and i was just unusual if hot or cold ride out changes gas mileage.
im discussion about utmost cold. -10 degrees cold

The Prius or another byhrid?

December 14, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Engineering

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steve00878 questioned:

Investigate the Prius or another hybrid. Outline for a fleeting time how they work and focus on a fastidious figure you find fresh. Are you impressed with the batteries, or perhaps the regenerative brakes?

And if here is anything in here you just don’t get, question – or tell it in your paper.

Then, take a spot. While hybrids do get better mileage, they aren’t automatically the best – the Smart Car, for model, gets better mileage. And a lot of the equipment in a hybrid is very “dirty,” in a manufacturing implication. It’s honest to say building a Prius makes more pollution than building a ordinary car. So the question is, does hybrid equipment really start a benefit, or are “we” fooling ourselves?

i let a friend borrow my car.what should i charge for mileage reimbursement?

December 13, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Commuting

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geminia1232 questioned:

I let my friend borrow my car for 4 months.she agreed to compensate me for mileage.i cannot use the regime reimbursement rate in view of the fact that she has paid for the gas and preservation on my car all owing to that time. how much must i payment her per mile? she has place 20000 miles on my car in the last 4 months lonely.

What really is the greenest car?

December 13, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Alternative Fuel Vehicles

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iambuf questioned:

Hybrids certainly have the best gas mileage and, as far as I know, some of the cleanest emissions (for gasoline engines), but I have heard that with a life-logic breakdown the environmental trace is much privileged, frequently due to the battery.

I know riding a bike and compelling transit is exponentially ‘greener’ than driving, but IF one had to handbook…

What about export used cars? That is very green from a levelheaded waste side. And if you buy a used car that gets excellent fuel efficiency, like an ancient civic, I have to wonder if that is greener than export a new hybrid…?

My only additional thought is export cleaner burning diesel engines, like some of the new volkswagons, in view of the fact that diesel has historically better fuel efficiency, so if they find a way to hegemony their dirtier emissions (which it seems like VWs did..?) that seems like a excellent selection too.

Any additional view?

Be grateful all!

How can turboing a Hummer give you better gas mileage and more HP?

December 12, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Maintenance & Repairs

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Foolish questioned:

My ancient soccer coach has a Hummer. He was telltale me how he was inane to place a turbo on it. He said by doing this he would get more HP and better gas mileage. I questioned him to clarify how that is possible. He told me by slamming more air into the pistons the fuel burns cleaner and explodes better. So it increases efficiency with a boost of potential. Is this possible?

What if I feed my current car steroids? Will it improve the MPG?

December 3, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Alternative Fuel Vehicles

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sob_141 questioned:

If I can’t meet the expense of a new Hybrid or gripping, I can’t meet the expense of to place for For myself in the same terrible circumstances by being paid yet another fixed gas mileage car like my current one, and I just can’t meet the expense of to keep costs on this pricey gas, then maybe steroids in the gas tank will make the car meaner, more aggressive, and give me sincerely awe-inspiring gas mileage.

It’d be way cheaper than costs a few thousand on the “gripping car conversion kit” for the vehicle anyway.

Would it be fiscally responsible to buy a 2009 Escalade Hybrid vs. a 2009 Escalade 2WD (not hybrid)?

December 3, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Gmc

hybrid vehicles

Apollo Creed questioned:

Car.com excise the hybrid at 20/21 MPG CTY/HWY and the additional one at 12/19.
The hybrid invoices at $65,737, the additional one is $56,975.
When driving frequently highway miles, it would take a Really long time to make back the superfluous cash washed-out to get the hybrid translation of it, plus the repair expenses on the hybrid would most liable cost much more.
May maybe somebody do the math and tell me how many miles you would have to handbook to realize the gas savings?
I skepticism you would meet that mileage in the time of the vehicle.

what gas mileage do cars in Europe get?

December 3, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Commuting

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smart@$$ questioned:

I heard they get better fuel efficiency than the cars in the U.S. get……………….

Are hybrids really more harmful to the environment than regular cars?

December 2, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Alternative Fuel Vehicles

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Monkey-Manned-Moon-Mission questioned:

I heard from a friend that the administer of making the battery for hybrid cars really puts more detrimental gases into the air than a habitual gas running car all owing to it’s entire life. I want to know if this is right. I know that hybrid cars get better gas mileage.

Name that hybrid; , zinc; a difficult mineral to get, a car that doesn’t last as long as conventional?

December 2, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Other - Politics & Government

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baby1 questioned:

more coal burned to start the batteries it runs off and to juice them up, and doesn’t get better gas mileage than a conventional compact car….in effect putting more crap in the air than a gas powered vehicle…..

why are hybrids still getting terrible gas mileage per gallon when technology is better than that?

December 2, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Physics

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Kozmos questioned:

I did some investigate on hybrids and I found that here was a guy who took a DC 10 starter motor and if i dredge up correctly a 20 horsepower gas motor, place the two into an opel gt along with some batteries way back in 1975!! that’s right 1975… and he was being paid 75 miles per gallon of gasoline. What happened to the gas milage in the new hybrids? What’s the difference with this guys opel vs. new tech? I would reflect that if back in 1975 one may maybe get 75 mi per gallon, with todays tech we must be in the high 100’s. Anyways I feel the possibility of cars is in solar potential untill we hit a foremost leap forwards with cold fusion…
you need to google opel gripping car and read the tale about this car. It is said the top speed is 90mph. Don’t pledge till you at smallest amount look this up online so you don’t question questions that need no pledge.

Chemistry Conversion problem?

December 2, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Chemistry

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brock_1011 questioned:

The Honda Insight, a hybrid gripping vehicle, has an EPA gas mileage rating of 57mi/gal in the city.

How many kilometers can the Insight travel on the amount of gasoline that would fit in a soda pop can? The number of a soda pop can is 355 .

I read “Stingies Sippers:The 10 Most Fuel-Efficient Vehicles in the U.S.”….?

December 1, 2009 by MyHybrid  
Filed under Other - Cars & Transportation

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*!~Jenny~!* questioned:

The link in case you place of protection’t read the condition-

http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/596/stingiest-sippers-the-10-most-fuel-efficient-vehicles-in-the-us/;_ylc=X3oDMTFkNGYxaTloBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwLXRvZGF5BHNsawNzdGluZ2llc3Qtc2lwcGVycw–

I mean, those cars do get sweet excellent mileage. But, what about the ancient cars that all used to make that get excellent milage? I’ve got a ‘97 For Contour (2.5L V6) & it gets 30+ mpg. Part of that depends on how hard I push it (it’s a manual) & whether I’ve been driving just in town or on road trips. What happened to the cars that used to get 40+ mpg. . . who stanch we all looked-for hybrids? I found a link that has some older cars that get that kinda mileage—

http://www.mpgomatic.com/2007/10/08/super-low-cost-high-mpg-cars-1978-1981/

So, this isn’t so much a question as to wanting to know others view. But, what do y’all reflect about whether or not the new hybrids are “better” than the older ones that get about the same mileage?

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