dailyfueleconomytip.com — Increased gasoline prices are going to affect you in some way. While the price increase may hurt some more than others, we?re all going to have to become accustomed to the fact that the days of cheap gas (and energy in general) are in the rear view mirror.
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diggmepleaseOct 23, 2007
Oh yeah....thanks for repeating every top 10 list on fuel mileage since 1992..../sarcasm...
mrwiggl3s2Oct 23, 2007
Wow... auto mechanics 101 people
69litersOct 24, 2007
If only there were some way to fit a brick inside the gas tank of your car...
newtoonOct 30, 2007
It may be unexpected from most of us but the reccurent statement about slow and steady acceleration is also at least partially wrong.A steady acceleration is not as good as a strong acceleration. ATTENTION : I do not mean to OVERSPEED ! I just want to state that in order to reach the speed you want (e.g. 50 km/h in cities), the best way to lower consumption is to accelerate frankly and not to accelerate with a “grandma” style.Absurd ? There is indeed a good reason for that and engine specialist often talk about it in science articles : simply engines have their best yield at maximum acceleration. Technically speaking, the reason is related to the compression rate and this goes back to the second principle of thermodynamics.The limit of designing thermal engines is called the “Knock limit” where the engine goes a bit crazy at a certain value of compression.Then, the worst for using an engine is the city but even on the highway, yield isfar from good (because of a somewhat moderate acceleration, you run at a steady speed). Automotive engineers try to find solutions to that issue (<a class="user" href="http://www.mce-5.com).">http://www.mce-5.com).</a>To give you an idea, you have to realise that you take the most benefit of a given volume of petrol when you climb a tough hill (and the worst when you go down, of course because ideally, you could just cut the engine and use G). Just for fun (this is no theory), just take a bicycle and have the choice between 10 km flat or 2km on a steep climb and you will understand all the advantage of a motor.Also, the best benefit you have on a highway is to go to the max speed your car can reach. Yet, this would be also stupid because even if your engine is at max yield you mainly use this remarkable yield it to move air … I guess the best, for fuel economy, would be to have two engines installed on a car : a normal and quite oversized one for great power and accelerations and a quite small engine that would be used instead to go at steady speed on highways at, let's say, max 100 km/h. Note : for readers of this comment, do not mix up acceleration and speed please …
uploadjoeNov 8, 2007
My car doesn't have a fuel filter it has a screen it the bottom of the fuel tank or so Hyundai tells me.