Hypermiling

- Step 1: Track your gas mileage
- Step 2: Don't drive aggressively
- Step 3: Avoid sitting still at traffic lights
- Step 4: Keep moving in congested traffic
- Step 5: Accelerate slowly from a stop
- Step 6: Use cruise control

Hypermiling is a set of techniques designed to improve a car's efficiency and gas mileage. It's not about changing the car, but about making changes in the way it is driven.
In November 2008, the Oxford University Press named "Hypermiling" the 2008 Word of the Year, citing the steadily rising gas prices for the word's prominence.OUP: "Hypermiling" Word of the Year
Wayne Gerdes

Wayne Gerdes is a nuclear plant operator in Illinois who coined the term "hypermilers" to describe people who want to "push the limits of fuel efficiency." Gerdes is 6' 1" and 210 pounds, and would like to lose 60 pounds in order to elevate his gas mileage.
Best Cars for Hypermiling

Hybrids: Honda Civic, Honda Insight and Toyota Prius.
Non-hybrids: Honda Civic CR-X HF and Smart Fortwo.

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Hypermiling News
1. Blog: Hypermiling Becoming More Popular as Gas Prices Rise (May 1, 2008)
- CBS News: Double Your Gas Mileage --No Kidding, Try "Hypermiling" (May 19, 2008)
- Times Online: Microtrends: Hypermiling (September 14, 2007)
- NewsOn6.com: Saving Gas With Extreme Driving (May 10, 2007)
- Topix.net: Hypermiling
- Google News: Hypermiling
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- improve ur car-ma practice hypermiling which is coasting rather than stepping on the gas all the time.
- to:random have you been unfriended, could be cuz you're using old words, I'm still hypermiling in my TDI - http://bit.ly/6SPTBz #yam
- Dennis Weaver in the 70's classic Duel? A hypermiling nightmare :) http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27043
- I also want to take the streets so I can go slow in my prius and not use any gas :) taking hypermiling to a whole new level
- 70.7 for two days in a row in the Civic Hybrid. If it were July I'd be complaining about such low MPG! http://twitpic.com/qkums #hypermiling
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