Igloos make poor cars.
You get up in the morning and your car is layered with an couple of inches of snow and ice. If you make a little letterbox shape on the windscreen and pootle off to work you are crippling your fuel consumption.
All that snow and ice has a significant weight so will take more fuel to punt around.
You will run the car for longer with the heater blasting out to clear the ice so you can actually see where you are going – most car heater draw heat from the engine so your car will run on it’s cold map for longer and will therefore use more fuel.
Once you get to cruising speed your nice modern, areodynamic car now has the drag coifficient of a house brick. Your elite hypermilling skills are basically wasted trying to push this odd shapre through the air.
So carefully clear most of the ice and snow from your car.
Hypermilling.co.uk is simply a small website about hypermilling – hypermilling techniques wll be listed and explained, news about hypermilling listed and links off to useful hypermilling resources.
Remember – being safe is more important than miles per gallon and even a small bump will totally negate any savings made by hypermilling.
You should always make sure your car is totally road legal and your car insurance is up to date, if you have any doubt contact your car insurance company.
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