What is the best way to get good fuel economy (25 highway+) out of your car? Do you really need a 4-cylinder engine or a turbocharged engine to get the best fuel economy? Can you get good fuel economy from the car that you're driving right now like driving conservatively?
Ever wonder how participants in the Mobil Economy Run managed to get such good mileage? Basically drive like there's an egg under the accelerator pedal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ief_Yc-E-Vk
Follow the factory maintenance schedule and make sure you have the correct air pressure in your tires. Drive like the guy behind you is a cop.
Toyota claims the V6 Highlander gets 27 mpg (combined).
The biggest impact on economy is just taking your foot out of the accelerator.
Yes. I think you can. I have a 2019 pickup with a naturally aspirated V-6 that claims 25 MPG highway. I could probably achieve that with a good tail wind and a lighter foot. It should be no sweat for a car.
100%. This is it. If you drive super fast in a Prius, it will not only struggle, but you’ll burn crazy fuel. If you hypermile a Prius, you can also get super great gas mileage, but also take forever.
It’s not only what you drive, how you drive matters just as much. .
Don't drive like I do. Haha. I don't drive overly fast, but I tend to slightly jack-rabbit the pedal when I start moving. I like feeling the torque of my engines. Driving fast in top gear is where most people waste gas, and is one reason I laugh at those highway fuel economy "ratings". Nobody drives 65 on the highway. A young coworker of mine complains that he gets bad gas mileage in a turbo 4-banger Kia going 90+, and I've pointed out to him the inconvenient relationship between speed and energy (doubling your speed in any gear requires at least 4x the fuel to do it), so he's burning 4x as much gas going 90 as he would going 45. What's funny about it is a few of our engineers were in the room at the time, and they didn't even think of this. Sometimes, I wonder about engineers anymore. I try to do 60-65 in my Ranger in the slow lane, the low gearing puts the tachometer between 2000 and 2500 RPMs at that speed, but everybody gets angry when I do it.
I always thought it was the 0 to 30 that drinks the most go juice.
It does; if you drive like a sane person. Low gears trade speed for torque, so the engine is spinning faster than the wheels, but you're accelerating. You want to minimize the engine speed relative to the wheel speed, so your car is getting the best efficiency where the wheel speed is fastest and the engine speed is slowest -right when it shifts into top gear. My Mustang's owners manual says you lose something like 10% efficiency or so for every 5 mph over 65 that you go. Part of that is aerodynamic drag, but a good portion is due to the property of kinetic energy, k=1/2m×v². The car is burning the same amount of gas at 2500 RPM in 2nd gear as it is in 6th gear at the same RPM, but the gear ratio in 6th means the wheels are turning faster, thus covering more ground. When you're doing what my coworker does, going 90 in top gear, the engine is at 3 or 4k RPM like it would be if it were in a low gear and taking off briskly, but it's not, it's working hard to maintain the speed, another gear change would drop it back down and save gas, but there isn't one available, so even though you're in overdrive, you're not at a low engine speed, thus you're not moving efficiently anymore.