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Recently I’ve been doing a bit of soul-searching as far as fuel economy is concerned. Being the co-founder of EcoModder and an active user on the forums, it’s obvious that the interest is there. [...]

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The PLX Devices Kiwi is undoubtedly a cute gadget. It has a nice color display, easy navigation, and installation is incredibly easy. However, is it really for ecodrivers?
Let’s go over the negatives I found first. I have a few major disagreements with how the Kiwi operates from an ecodriver’s standpoint.
The first will be that it [...]

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In the beginning, there were iPhone apps that could do things like assist you in recording how much gas you used. Some of them even made pretty graphs, taking them a little bit beyond your average notebook in terms of usefulness. This pretty graphs were definitely useful, which is why ecomodder has employed them for [...]

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The other day I spent an hour sitting in traffic in downtown Philadelphia. Not only did I watch my fuel economy plummet on my MPGuino, but I kissed the bumper on a BMW to let an ambulance by, and my car ended up overheating. I was so preoccupied by the traffic that I didn’t [...]

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Today, ABG gives up an update on the Taylors, that famous “fuel stretching” couple sponsored by Shell and VW. They’re driving one of VW’s new TDIs around the country (probably exclusively on Shell’s fuel), trying to set the coast to coast fuel economy record. Unlike some people, they don’t call themselves hypermilers, but “fuel stretchers.” [...]

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The other day I had the unique pleasure of talking with Charles Territo, representative of the Auto Alliance, about their new EcoDrivingUSA initiative. We’ve talked about EcoDriving here before, as well as some of the the results that have come out from companies like Ford. However, we’ve got a bit of an inside view here, [...]

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If you can look past all the branding, you’ll see who many people are calling the “World’s Best Hypermilers.” Of course, there’s no real “World Championships of Fuel Economy,” so no one can officially take that title, but the Taylors would definitely be on everyone’s short list if you asked who could take home that [...]

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Whenever someone signs up on the EcoModder forums, the first question they get is “do you have any fuel economy instrumentation?” So I’m asking the same thing to you today, and also offering some solutions. Instrumentation is important for anyone trying to get better mileage since it’s the only way to get real-time feedback on [...]

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Ford is really throwing down the guantlet by showing how dedicated it is to the new EcoDriving initiative we talked about the other day. I really liked it because it validates a lot of what we’re trying to do on the forums in terms of improving fuel economy on an individual level, but also showed [...]

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Recently, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers announced an initative called EcoDriving, aimed at educating consumers on how to drive more efficiently to reduce fuel usage. When you head on over to the site, the first thing you will notice is Governor Schwarzenegger’s welcoming voice, as he explains to you a bit of what EcoDriving is [...]

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