Hi guyz,
After driving "horn-less" for two years in Bangalore, now I am trying out some of the hypermiling techniques since March. It did help me quite a lot in saving fuel and also added an interesting angle to the the overall driving experience in the city. I have been trying the following techniques so far.
Car: 2001 Santro.
Route: Usually between Sarjapur road and MG road (approx 24 kms up and down in busy city roads). At times, I go to Electronics city (about 26 kms up and down with about a half in busy traffic and another half in suburban traffic)
Started: From March 08 with P&G technique along with no A/c usage and rolled up windows. Also tried techniques such as FAS (in neutral) and over-inflating tyres later, though they did not prove much useful yet.
Fuel: Petrol filled always from the same pump (Bowring service station)
1. Pulse and Glide (P&G) technique: This is the easiest thing to practice in the city as there is hardly 100 metres between two consecutive signals in most of the roads. I did this for the whole of March and my average mileage increased to about 15.3 kmph. A good improvement over 13 kmph earlier.
2. Forced Auto Stop (FAS): This is generally not adviced for non-hybrid vehicles. I tried this without switching off the engine and there was a marginal improvement in mileage. (~.75 kmpl)
3. Inflating tyes to 36 psi: This seems to have a very marginal impact on city driving as its mostly low speed/distance.
Other techniques such as "tailgating large vehlcies" etc are not practical in our roads.
I am still perfecting the art of P&G and "pro-active" driving with minimum use of brake and gas pedals. So far I am able to increase my mileage to about 16.3 kmpl. Will report about further progress going forward.
Request TBhpians to share their expereince with hypermiling techniques.
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Mods, Think I posted this in the wrong section. Please move this thread to appropriate (street experiences?) thread.