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We all may find it difficult to drive a car on a rainy day for sure. And we keep in mind only one thing and that is, safety factor, but may not be considered about fuel efficiency. But there is a simple way to go safe and efficient on a thunder storm rainy day.

Ridge riding is common Hypermiling technique coined by Hypermiling guru Wayne Gerdes. Ridge riding is a simple tip that can aid hyper milers save gas on a rainy day, and stay with increasing fuel efficiency.

Ridge riding is simple and more fun that anyone can follow on a rainy day.

You just need to drive your car on the far right of the road almost over the white line.

Buy doing so you notify two things to the cars behind you

—-that you’re driving at a slow speed

—-Especially helpful when weather conditions add extra danger to being on the road, and more significantly, you keep your car’s tires out of the grooves in the road that develop from heavy travel.

White-line where you need to stick on

Water puddles develop in the grooves during a storm, and cause drag. By staying on a flat surface and avoiding kicking up water with your tires, you’ll increase your car’s overall MPG. This tip probably won’t save a hypermiler thousands of dollars, but its a safe and easy hypermiling technique to follow on a bad weather condition.

Gliding On Air

Gliding on air is an adventure and fun too. Surely, you would know how it feels to glide in the sky. Now we are here to know a little on gliding on roads. Of course with your car !� Now to increase your gas mileage we are going to learn another driving tip.

Pulse and glide is a driving technique that is intended to make your driving more fuel efficient. It is most often connected with hybrid cars and cars that have a manual transmission system.

It needs a little bit of practice and the intention to increase the fuel mileage, to learn.

Hybrid Car

How it works?

Lets assume that you are driving on road and want to attain a speed of 60km/h. Instead of driving steady at 60, now you accelerate to 70km/h (which is the pulse), then use the car to coast for a period in neutral with the engine off down to 50km/h ( glide part ).

Thats all… Repeat the pulse and glide again and again.

Interpretation: If you are pulsing about half of the time then your overall fuel economy will be about twice the number displayed during your pulse. This applies for the instantaneous display.

The other aspect of P&G that experimentation is required by the driver to find how far to glide. At some point the vehicle speed drops to a point where another pulse is needed. By Maximizing the glide you can cut the drag as much as possible to keep the car rolling.

This P&G technique helps to extract every last mile from the fuel drops.

There are 2 keys to get the most of pulse and guide. First, understanding the most efficient operating modes of the car you are driving, which requires some practice, and testing.

Hypermilers typically use a device like the Scan guage to monitor the instantaneous fuel consumption of the vehicle.

So start gliding today but practice before doing so.� To know about more driving and hypermiling techniques read Hypermiling for Efficient Gas Mileage

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Trucks are generally huge and carry heavy goods.With the result it becomes difficult for the truck drivers to act quickly on roads while driving. Thus the truckers follow up some techniques to avoid mishap and traffic which also provides better fuel economy.

�How can you drive your car like a trucker?

I would like to point out some tips on how do they catch up with the fuel economy.

Driving with load: You would find Trucks with heavy loads crawling slowly when moving up a hill. Its cause they cannot move with the same speed as other vehicles because of the heavy load carried by them. So they crawl when moving up a road, and drive with a little more speed during down hill to compensate the time.

Stopping at the traffic signals: Truckers crawl heavily to reach a traffic signal when they see a traffic signal light ahead of them. But why?� The reason is to clear the traffic in front of them at the time the trucker reaches the signal. Another thing is, its very difficult to start a truck from the dead stop, so the truckers avoid a complete halt before the signals.

Try sticking to the right lane unless a heavy traffic arrives. Choose the least path of resistance to avoid most of the acceleration and deceleration.

So what else? You can follow these and see how you can save fuel and improve the gas mileage.

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