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Thrifty Dutch Hyundai onwers can win up to €10,000 in free gas

Thrifty Dutch Hyundai owners have been given a chance to enter a contest where the prize is the equivalent of five years' worth of gas, estimated at €10,000. The package goes to whoever is the most frugal at the wheel. Anyone registering for the contest at Dutch Hyundai dealers is also entered to win a €500 fuel card. The fuel challenge will be conducted in December and there's more information at the official site. A local Dutch auto publication is also offering another €500 card. Because nothing says conserve your fuel like ... Read more →

Austrian hyper-miler beats his own record when driving a Seat Ibiza Ecomotive to 100 mpg Xavier Navarro

Last May, Austrian Gerhard Plattner took a Seat Ibiza Ecomotive and drove it from the factory where it was built, in Martorell (near Barcelona), Spain, and drove it a distance of 970.6 miles using ...

Greenies can shoot for platinum in Nissan's new Intelligent Driver Project UK Xavier Navarro

Following the lead of a similar project in Japan, Nissan has kicked off the Nissan Intelligent Driver Project (NIDP) in Europe. The NIDP combines all kinds of technological aids, including ...

Can pulse and glide work to improve electric vehicle highway range? Sam Abuelsamid

Recently we got a question from a reader regarding the benefit of using the common hypermiling technique of "pulse and glide" with a battery electric vehicle. Given the relative scarcity of pure ...

Trying out the new Insight in Spain at the EcoDesafío Honda Insight Xavier Navarro

Click on image above to see a full gallery of the EcoDesafio Honda Insight in Barcelona The first generation the Honda Insight wasn't offered for sale in most European markets, including Spain. ...

Austrian hyper-miler gets 81.1 mpg in Seat Ibiza Ecomotive 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Once upon a time when drivers went driving across multiple countries, it was in pursuit of doing it in the least amount of time. These days, it seems to be just as often that drivers are still going for the least, but now it's about minimizing fuel consumption. After a team of drivers ran over ...

Toyota increases its iQ with hypermiling stunt 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Toyota already has a fuel efficient vehicle on its hands in the new iQ city car, but the brand's UK arm set out to prove that the diminutive machine can do much better than its official European rating of about 65 miles per gallon on the combined cycle. The entire hypermiling stunt is being ...

Hypermiling in a Porsche 911 yields 35.1 mpg 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Porsche 911 has long been one of the most fuel efficient sports cars available at its performance level. The new 2009 911 with its direct injection and dual clutch gearbox is rated at 24 mpg (US) combined on the EU test cycle (19/27 on the EPA cycles). That's not an exceptional number around ...

AutoblogGreen wins Ford Fusion hybrid mileage challenge: 43.1 mpg! 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

On Monday, AutoblogGreen joined several dozen other media outlets in Los Angeles for a chance to drive Ford's new 2010 Fusion hybrid for the first time. After a brief repeat of the technical highlights of the new hybrid sedan, Ford spokesman Alan Hall challenged the group to go out and drive a ...

"Hypermiling" named New Oxford dictionary's Word of the Year 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

If you are reading this blog, you are likely well aware of the growing green sentiment all over the world. Here in the U.S., gas prices have finally begun to approach what they are on the rest of the globe, and this action has prompted a new word: hypermiling. First coined in 2004, the word took ...

New mileage record for the Peugeot 308: 69.15 mpg 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Not satisfied to show off its hypermiling credentials in Australia and the UK, Peugeot is showing off that its compact 308 HDI can spot great mileage in South Africa. A 308 participated in the Coast2Coast challenge running 1689.7 km from the East Coast city of Kleinzee to the West Coast city of ...

More on Ford's SmartGauge cluster for the Fusion/Milan hybrids w/VIDEO 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When the new Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan go on sale early next year, everyone from basic commuters to the most avid hyper-milers should be able to get what they want out of the new SmartGauge cluster. Typically on hybrid vehicles, all the information about power flow and battery state of ...

Ford "Smart Gauge" collects green leaves for good behavior w/VIDEO 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

You drive like crap and you know it. Stop the burnouts, late braking and 100-mph freeway sprint and you just might make a tank of gas last longer than a day. Sure, automakers like Ford could spend a few million on lectures to teach car buyers a thing or two about better driving. But if you didn't ...

Audi Mileage Marathon: Fuel efficiency strategies 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

After seven days and 2,832 miles, I'm finally back home. My week-long stint on the Audi Mileage Marathon is over and I believe I've learned a thing or two about hyper-miling. Teams running in the event were scored based on a formula that included fuel efficiency and speed. The fuel efficiency ...

Fuel stretching Taylors get world record 58.82 mpg around the U.S. 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

After twenty days on the road John and Helen Taylor have completed their journey around America and earned a new entry in the Guinness book of world records. After 9,419 miles through 48 states, the Taylors consumed just over 11 tanks of ultra low sulfur diesel. That works out to 58.82 mpg and 853 ...

Fuel stretching Taylors 1/3 of the way around US, averaging 58.78 mpg 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Helen and John Taylor have reached the one-third mark of their nationwide trek to demonstrate how much impact driving behavior can have on fuel efficiency, and it's working. The Australian couple are well on their way to setting a new world record. After 2,753 miles and eight days of driving they ...

Hyper-miling couple going for trans-continental mileage record 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We've written about the exploits of Helen and John Taylor on several previous occasions. The pair like to get into cars and see how far they can drive between fill-ups. Their most recent adventure took them around Australia in a Peugeot 308 with an average of 75.6 mpg (U.S.). Today, they are setting ...

______-miling the Jaguar XK-R 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hypermiling is too strong a phrase when you apply the MPG-increasing practice to a Jaguar XK-R. Extra-miling might pass muster, but all it amounts to in this particular instance is driving a $104,000, 420 horsepower Jaguar convertible like it's a $22,000 Camry. Why not go for big dollops of both ...

Sensible AAA recomments not trying "dangerous fuel-saving techniques" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When drivers set out to hypermile, there is a spectrum of techniques that they can use. These range from the good - don't blast away from a red light and don't speed up then slam on the brakes at the next red - to the risky. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. may be able to use hypermiling tricks like shutting ...

VIDEO: The opposite of hypermiling - BMW M3 vs Toyota Prius 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

After evaluating supercars to see which could go furthest on a gallon of gasoline, the crew of Top Gear decided to try again. What they apparently set out to do was demonstrate the impact of driving behavior on fuel economy. All hypermiling enthusiasts will gladly expound on how modifying your ...

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s hypermiling tricks help win NASCAR race 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by SoldiersMediaCenter. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Hypermiling techniques are nothing new for people who want to save fuel. Often, these techniques involve avoiding sudden acceleration and slamming on the brakes. So, what do you do if you want to conserve fuel while speeding ...

What Car? starts up "Slow down, save cash" project 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hypermilers know this already, but What Car?, the British automotive media outlet, released the results of a study today that shows just how much money can be saved by some sensible - in this case slower - driving. The savings can be pretty dramatic: up to £1.20 ($2.34USD) every eight ...

Hypermiling couple drive Peugeot 308 around Australia at 75.6mpg 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Here in the U.S., hypermiling has largely been the province of hybrid drivers. That doesn't mean that only hybrid drivers can take advantage of those driving strategies. When last we heard from Helen and John Taylor, the British couple had just completed a run from Britain to Poland in a pair of ...

Are Hypermilers a menace on the road? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Since the advent of the hybrid at the turn of this century, an increasingly large group of hardcore fanatics have taken up hypermiling. For the uninitiated, hypermiling is the practice of using modified driving techniques to get the maximum possible fuel efficiency. There are hypermilers who claim ...

Collected for your ease of use: 104 eco-driving tips 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by edkohler. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Two months ago, EcoTrekker released a list of 100 ways to green up your driving style. If you missed that list, or just wanted to see someone outdo EcoTrekker by four items, check out this new list on Ecomodder. Of course, most of the ...

100 - count 'em - suggestions for hypermiling 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Even veteran hypermilers will probably find something worth remembering in this list of 100 ways to increase a vehicle's miles per gallon. Sure, the list starts with the basic, heard-em-before ways to get more distance out of the fuel in the tank of the car you already drive, but how many of you ...

VIDEO: Six countries on one tank? Welcome to diesel driving in Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

For Americans who have never driven in Europe, it might be hard to imagine driving through six countries on a single tank of fuel. In the U.S. it would be hard to drive through six states on a single fillup. British hypermiling enthusiasts John and Helen Taylor set out to see just how far they go ...

VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson goes from London to Edinburgh and back on one tank of diesel in an Audi A8 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Our favorite British automotive blow-hard, one Jeremy Clarkson, is usually out to prove just how fast cars can go. During one episode of Top Gear he changed direction to see just how economically he could make the round trip from London to Edinburgh in an Audi A8 TDI. The A8 is equipped with a 4.2L ...

Toyota blog gives tips on hypermiling 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Ever since they started publishing EPA mileage ratings on new vehicle window stickers, those stickers have also carried the disclaimer that your mileage may vary. The official ratings are based on a standardized test sequence that all light duty vehicles are put through. In order to compare ...

Hybrid Fest VIDEO 4: The MPG Challenge 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Three grown men, a global positioning system satellite navigation screen, and a map with directions. Seems like shooting fish in a barrel, right? Wrong. These fish apparently are wearing kevlar vests, you have a slingshot, and do I see a chain gun in the flippers of that sturgeon homing in on ...

Hybrid Fest VIDEO 3: Ryan Fulcher and Manzanita Micro's plug-in 100 mpg Prius 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Coming at you from Hybrid Fest 2007, here's an interview with Ryan Fulcher about his plug-in Prius. Interestingly, Ryan does not consider himself a hypermiler - he doesn't like to worry about his driving habits, and just drives safely. While that may make those of you in the forest green ...

Hybrid Fest 2007 VIDEO 2: MIMA Inventor Mike Dabrowski 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

As mentioned by Insight owner and hypermiler Randall Burkhalter in the first Hybrid Fest video posted, the MIMA system is an electronic retrofit which allows the driver to manually control the Integrated Motor Assist in the Honda Insight. At Hybrid Fest 2007, I got to meet and interview Mike ...

HybridFest 2007 VIDEO 1 - Hypermiler Randall Burkhalter and his Honda Insight 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Meet_a_hypermiler_who_gets_95_miles_per_gallon_in_a_Honda_Insight_VIDEO'; Randall Burkhalter is the proud owner of a Honda Insight - the first exclusive hybrid model to the United States. It is not an ordinary Insight, however. Randall has fitted it ...

HybridFest 2007 - We came, we saw, we conquered 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

From the onset of the MPG Challenge on Friday to the conversion of Wisconsin Power's stock Toyota Prius to a plug-in hybrid on Sunday, HybridFest 2007 was the most rockin' party for treehuggers, hypermilers and other greenfolk this side of the Atlantic. If you feel bad that you didn't make it, you ...

Hybridfest 2007: America's largest hybrid car festival, with PHEVs (and ABG) 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

On the road again... Hybrid Fest 2007 is happening this weekend, folks, so buckle up, plug your PDA into your Prius, and maximize every ounce of oil in your tank to get to Madison, Wisconsin for two days of jolly green joy. Bloggers, hypermilers, hybrid owners and everyone else is invited to the ...

One guy, a plug-in Prius and hypermiling (video, lots of video) 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Here's a peek into what makes this whole share-everything/Web 2.0 thing pretty cool: we can ride along with one guy, somewhere in Seattle (username davem5321 on YouTube), who is cranking out 1000+ miles from one tank of gas in his Prius. Granted, it's a modified plug-in Prius, but you can ...

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