Has anyone tried this? "Hyper Mileage"

Recently in LA there's been alot of talk about it. People drive like 55MPH with very slow acceleration and cruizing to stops. And supposedly you can get like up to 50 to 60 MPGs.

I tried it with my xB and got less mileage. Anyone else doing this out there? I find that the optimum speed for best fuel economy is between 70 and 75MPH which will give me 32 to 34 MPG.

http://www.hypermiling.com/

There are all kinds of tricks to it but it seems like you have to be anal about it all the time. My best has been 37.5 mpg for one tank. It can be done but with an xB shape the highest would be around 40mpgs.
I don't drive my xB much but when I do it's for fun. Even doing that my last tank was 34 mpg. :P

I tried...um Hypermiling has caused me to do a few..."Dumba$$ ran out of gas" walks. Havent quite got the hang of it.

i started a couple a weeks ago. im takin hypermiling in small doses. my mileage went from about 28mpg to 36mpg. it affords me one more days travel to work saving about $40 so far. i have several things against me, chrome wheels, sound system, etc. but still got 36 mpg and can def get more mpg by making more changes. u can go to ecomodder.com or cleanmpg.com for more info on hypermiling. a lot of things on these sites i will prolly never do but im saving gas and money just with the few changes ive made.

thats also how normal ppl should drive...but everyones got a lead foot...its been proven that cutting in & out of traffic vs. just sitting in one lane only gets the person who was speeding to the same destination maybe a couple minutes faster. so i keep it cool when i drive especially with 4.50 a gallon

What a sad state of affairs when people who drive cars that average >30 mpg are worried about mileage and gas costs. I paid almost as much to fill my tank today as when I was driving a F-150 SuperCrew 4x4. I am one of those people "with the lead foot" and still get between 30 and 32 mpg. Still, never thought I would pay $40 to fill my tank.

Have been strict about sticking to 60mph on freeways and have average 39MPG the last two fillups.

My best tank yet is just a hair shy of 35mpg. I've been reading ecomodder.com recently, and a guy there just boasted of 49mpg in an xB1. I'm a bit dubious obout it, but I know 40s are possible.

I'm working on honing my hypermiling myself. The key is discipline. Shift by 2k, stick to speed limits, and learn to judge throttle position better, and you'll instantly gain efficiency.

Everyone that posts here about crappy mileage goes on and on about all the things they've done to their car to 'fix' it, but they refuse to adjust the nut behind the wheel, as the saying goes. Driving technique is the single best thing anyone can do for their mileage.

You don't even have to go to the extremes that some hypermilers do to see benefits, either. Just slowing down can easily give you 5mpg. That's like $8 every hundred miles put back in your pocket.

That said, I'm currently concocting plans for an undercarriage tray and kill switch/push button start, because I'm getting better mileage on my commute than on the highway.

Not sure if I'd call it hypermiling, but by simply keeping the box to 60 mph on the highway, coasting on hills wherever possible, shifting at 2k, etc. -- just simple, gentle driving -- I've gone from 32 mpg to 37 mpg pretty consistently. My drive is a mix of urban streets and some interstate. Same techniques on the wife's Prius (gee, we drive exciting cars) typically gives her 50 mpg, up from the mid-40s.

It seems to have started here too. I don't care how much gas costs, you can't drive 55-60 MPH in the fast lane of a 4 lane highway! The speeds at which people drive on the highway seems to have slowed quite a bit the past few weeks. Even more than when we had those absurd fees tacked onto tickets in VA.

...I don't care how much gas costs, you can't drive 55-60 MPH in the fast lane of a 4 lane highway!.

No one should be driving in the far left lane since it is a PASSING lane ONLY! (boy how I wish that law was enforced more).

Remember, a speed limit is the maximum speed as allowed by law for road vehicles. 55-60 in the 2 right-most lanes is totally legal in California. Dont know about your state though.

Got my best on the last fill up.... 36.3 mpg! 8)

When I started I was doing 28 mpg.:tap:

Then, with a change to Mobil 1 (before knowing differently), new iridium spark plugs, and slooooooooowing down a bit, and increasing the recommended cold air tire pressure by 3 pounds, I have been averaging right around 32 mpg.

yea nothing stopping you from staying in the right lanes so that you can keep your speed to 60mph. like someone said above... it takes discipline to get good mpg. If you want to see the mid 30s or better per tank, you're going to have to get your speed down on the freeway. i would much rather leave 5 minutes early and save a dollar each time i commute then leaving at the last second and having to waste gas by speeding or driving aggressively.

The optimal speed is 40mph, the engine takes no effort at that speed.
60 is good for highways though.

My best was 39.5 mpg, but average has been 37.

...I don't care how much gas costs, you can't drive 55-60 MPH in the fast lane of a 4 lane highway!.No one should be driving in the far left lane since it is a PASSING lane ONLY! (boy how I wish that law was enforced more).ha ha. It's funny because it's true. You wouldn't know it to drive in most of VA or MD. You have to go Pennsylvania to see everyone consistently driving in the right lane except to pass. I doubt anyone in the DC area would ever get pulled over for driving in the left lane unless it was the middle of night, nobody else on the road, and they wanted an excuse to do a sobriety check.

yea nothing stopping you from staying in the right lanes so that you can keep your speed to 60mph. like someone said above... it takes discipline to get good mpg. If you want to see the mid 30s or better per tank, you're going to have to get your speed down on the freeway. i would much rather leave 5 minutes early and save a dollar each time i commute then leaving at the last second and having to waste gas by speeding or driving aggressively.

In the good old days (when gas was $2, 3.5 years ago), I had a 50 mile commute for about six months, and I discovered that I got about 2-3mpg better if I did 70 instead of 75, making the trip take something like 57 minutes instead of 54 minutes. It's really worth it.

Of course, last week, the woman and I went to Niagara Falls, and she screamed at me for like half an hour about doing 65 in a 65, because "EVERYONE IS PASSING YOU!" It's not a race. Sorry. Needless to say, I'll be happy to crack 30mpg this tank. Ugh.

Besides, thanks to boxy-to-the-point-of-being-a-parachute aerodynamics and city-oriented gearing, I get better FE in town as it is.

This is crazy. DRILL IN ANWR already!

^^^WORD!!!

It may seem crazy, but it's definitely a fun little game to play if you get bored of driving.

The MPG game!

It may seem crazy, but it's definitely a fun little game to play if you get bored of driving.

The MPG game!

It's not just a game-- it's a game most effectively played with a spreadsheet and careful record keeping!

Yes, I consider myself an amateur hypermiler.

It may seem crazy, but it's definitely a fun little game to play if you get bored of driving.

The MPG game!

It's not just a game-- it's a game most effectively played with a spreadsheet and careful record keeping!

Yes, I consider myself an amateur hypermiler.I post my readings on ecomodder.com.

But I tend to squeeze that extra drop in every time so its not that accurate. :/

It may seem crazy, but it's definitely a fun little game to play if you get bored of driving.

The MPG game!

I also consider myself a amateur hypermiler (not one who drinks as many Millers in one hour :P ). I especially like getting off the back of a semi-truck- about 1 car length back in a alternate lane (there is still benifit of less wind drag at that location).

I've got a good road trip at the end of July down to San Diego-comic con , so we'll see how well I do on my 850+ mile drive.

I'm mainly working on one aerodynamic mod on my car = could increase mpg by 1-3 easy. The Acetone thing.. in that last article stating 25-35% increase is false. At best 5-10% increase( so maybe a 1-3 mpg increase) is what I've noticed, and thats with adding it to a full tank (3oz of acetone) w/ Torco 3cc of synthetic 2-cycle oil for upper cylinder lube. My first full tank I added it back in early May = averaged 43 mpg , my second fill up I averaged 40 mpg. vs. 2-3 months previous averages were 36-38 mpg.

I drive the 710 freeway here in LA and if I go the speedlimit in the far right lanes I'm killing my car one pot hole at a time. So can an xB1 take that amount of abuse? She rides rough as it is.

It may seem crazy, but it's definitely a fun little game to play if you get bored of driving.

The MPG game!

I also consider myself a amateur hypermiler (not one who drinks as many Millers in one hour :P ). I especially like getting off the back of a semi-truck- about 1 car length back in a alternate lane (there is still benifit of less wind drag at that location).


thats also very dangerous because 1 car length away i doubt the driver can even see you. Also i doubt you would have the reaction time if the driver of that semi slammed on his brakes from 1 car length away.
A safe drive does 1 car length for every 10mph :lalala: but no one really does that. i prob have 1 car length for every 20mph. but i try for 10mph

It may seem crazy, but it's definitely a fun little game to play if you get bored of driving.

The MPG game!

I also consider myself a amateur hypermiler (not one who drinks as many Millers in one hour :P ). I especially like getting off the back of a semi-truck- about 1 car length back in a alternate lane (there is still benifit of less wind drag at that location).


thats also very dangerous because 1 car length away i doubt the driver can even see you. Also i doubt you would have the reaction time if the driver of that semi slammed on his brakes from 1 car length away.
A safe drive does 1 car length for every 10mph :lalala: but no one really does that. i prob have 1 car length for every 20mph. but i try for 10mph

You misread-- one carlength back in the next lane is not tailgating. In fact, it's not even in a semi's blind spot. However, it's almost as effective as actually drafting. As long as one does this without holding up traffic, it's actually a pretty smart thing to do.

oh i thought you meant 1 car length directly behind :P

Excellent thread, keep experimenting until you find your "sweet spot" for fuel economy...this current tank im on ive been trying to find a semi-truck driving the speed limit that I can drive behind (not too close though), ill let you know the results.

To me it's not worth the paint and widshield damage.
I'll live with my 33-37 mpgs.

I'm half way through my current tank and im not too impressed with the "drafting" effect on my fuel economy...not to mention what bB said about all the debris that hits your car.

It's time for me to "back off varment", lol.

I must drive to hard in my xB, my last tank of town driving I got 29 mpg. But that was with 28 psi in my tires, I just pumped them up to 35 psi to see how much it will change.

picture of scangauge readout
http://www.sendspace.com/file/05tx5z

My best was a daily average of 50.7. I do hypermiling and everything is stock on engine accept for the addition of a hho generator. I also have 40 psi in my tires.

I started Hypermiling almost 2 months ago and I have received great gas mileage by doing so.

One tank i was able to get a hair shy of 38mpg. That was just doing 55-60 on the free way and coasting to stop lights, and staying under 2k RPMs while driving in City.

Stargift can you post that on a site that isn't broken?