Even Bumper Stickers Now Hypermile
From Zazzle.com to Cafepress.com and a few in-between, many websites are getting on the hypermiling bumper sticker craze. Slogans such as "Go Around Me, I'm Hypermiling" and "I love it when you hypermile" are quite popular.
But why the interest in hypermiling? Can you say "High Gas Prices"? Seems to be a cultural thing for people to start taking fuel conservation seriously. The modifications one can make to their vehicle as well as adjustments in their style of driving can spell a lot of cash savings in the short and long term. According to hypermiling enthusiasts, increasing your MPG has never been so easy by using numerous techniques that will increase your MGP by up to 33% and possibly more. That translates into a potential $60 savings for every $200 that you spend on gas and almost $500 in savings per year. However, when it gets right down to it, trying to save gas money is not new. In fact, fuel maximizing behavior utilizes engine inefficiency, aerodynamic drag, rolling friction and kinetic energy lost to braking as the age-old culprits of bad fuel mileage. Driver behavior can influence all of these. The city mileage of conventional cars is lower than highway mileage due to: 1) a high proportion of idling time, 2) operation mostly at very inefficient low-output engine operating points, and 3) more frequent braking. The above phenomena can best be understood in light of new English terminology reflecting rather unconventional gas conservation habits. Terms such as Hypermiling, Nempimania and Ecodriving. Hypermiling of course refers to exceeding the U.S. EPA estimated fuel efficiency of one's vehicle by modifying driver habits. The term came from hybrid vehicle driving clubs and Wayne Gerdes. Nempimania refers to the obsession of getting the best fuel economy possible from a hybrid car. And Ecodriving is associated with the Europeans who support energy efficient use of their vehicles especially via training courses and tools such as fuel gauges.
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