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Gas Mileage Secrets You Need To Know

By Bill Williams

Introduction

With the price of oil having rocketed up over the past year and with no sign of coming down, there is an increasing interest in improving the gas mileage for vehicles. This article lists some of the main gas mileage secrets you need to know.

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Driving habits

The first of the gas mileage secrets, will cost you nothing to implement as is to do with your driving habits. Check your speed since above 55 mph, each 1 mph. increase in vehicle speed. decreases mileage by 0.1 mpg. Using your car's cruise control when cruising can provide up to 17 percent improvement. Another of the gas mileage secrets deal with that summer indispensable, air conditioning. Only use air conditioning at speeds over 40 MPH ( 64KPH) and interstingly enough there is no discernible change in whether the windows are down or up. Eliminating excessive idling provides savings up to 19 percent. The greatest saving, however, driving moderately instead of aggressively can results in a staggering 37 percent saving.



Car Maintenance

Some of the best gas mileage secrets are to do with car maintenance. Ensure that your car is tuned up, the oil is changed when required and that the tyre pressures are always optimal. Speaking of tyre pressures, one of the least known gas mileage secrets is that tyres which have low rolling resistance actually can improve your gas mileage by up to 2 mpg . A little gem amongst gas mileage secrets is that using an inert gas such as nitrogen as a substitute for air in tyres and can improve gas mileage. Replacing a clogged air filter can improve your car's gas mileage by up to 10 percent. Fuel additives help in keep the engines injectors clean and can provide up to 17% improvement in gas mileage.

 


Diesel and Gasoline-Electric Hybrids

Trade in your current car for a diesel or gasoline - electric hybrid vehicle. The scale of economies that diesel engines provide is one of the best kept gas mileage secrets typically 30 - 40 percent better mileage than gasoline cars and for the smaller cars provide better mileage than hybrid cars. Another advantage is that there is an increase in the manufacture of bio-diesel fuel made from vegetable oil and waste vegetable cooking oil from restaurants.

 

Hydrogen Conversion Kits

If you cannot change your vehicle, the followg gas mileage secrets involve adapting your car using kits to augument your car to run on hydrogen. The first of our two gas mileage secrets is the United Nuclear Hydrogen Fuel System Kit. This is a conversion that enables an existing vehicle to run on either hydrogen or gasoline. The kit conversion requires modifications to the engine management, electrics, ignition and cooling systems and is unfortunately not applicable for diesels or engines with a compression ratio of greater than 9:1. The hydrogen is stored in small tanks (Hydride tanks) which can be installed in virtually any free space within a vehicle. The hydrogen itself is generated by an additional system which can be installed in any free space in your home.

The use of brown gas as a fuel addititive is another of the gas mileage secrets. Brown gas consists of a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen and is produced by the electrolysis of distilled water. Brown gas is drawn into the cars air intake manifold or carburettor and is forms part of the fuel vapour mixture. This combination of hydrogen and oxygen improves the combustion of the injected fuel gasoline or diesel as well as increasing the energy released. This results in improved efficiency of between 50 percent to as much as 300 percent.

Summary

Of all the gas mileage secrets presented, the one which you could probably implement right away are changes to your driving habits. The next easily applicable of the gas mileage secrets is to ensure that your vehicle is properly maintained. Finally, you may want to consider a hybrid hydrogen conversion.

 

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