Pulse and Glide Your Prius for Super Fuel Economy

August 12, 2009

httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAocwToZWVQ Ever wondered what the difference between the average driver struggling to beat the EPA in their Prius and the ecodrivers getting 80 mpg is? One of the keys is a technique called “Pulse & Glide.” The specifics of pulse & glide on the Prius are covered in the above video, but to summarize, the [...]

Read the full article →

GM Claims 230 MPG City for 2011 Volt

August 11, 2009

For the last couple days, GM has been trying to drum up a little press surrounding the number 230 for a surprise announcement. As you can see above, the “0″ in 230 is a plug, which makes sense considering the announcement was about the fuel economy capabilities of the upcoming Chevy Volt. Nothing has changed [...]

Read the full article →

Cash for Clunkers Gets $2B, Back on Track

August 9, 2009

It’s certainly a mixed bag of news for many of us, but the government’s “cash for clunks” rebate program has gotten an infusion of new cash and will be up and running through at least the end of the month. As we recently posted, the program ran out of its first billion after its first [...]

Read the full article →

Progressive X-Prize Chooses Technical Operations Panel

August 6, 2009

For those of us eagerly waiting for the official start of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize competition, this is definitely a step in the right direction. The contestants are assembled, the rules are laid out, and finally, the judges have been assembled. The judging will be done by six automotive experts, assembled from such disparate [...]

Read the full article →

How to Make Your Car Feel Like New in 10 Minutes

August 6, 2009

httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voYLttw-N0E Let’s face it, many of us have older cars. And cars, as they get older, develop all sorts of little, painful annoyances. One of those annoyances, which has gotten to me even since I first bought my 1991 CRX, was how the windshield wipers never really seemed to move the water off of the [...]

Read the full article →

The Nissan Leaf – Another EV!

August 5, 2009

I am very happy to see another electric vehicle on the near horizon: the Nissan Leaf was announced on August 2nd.  There’s a very comprehensive post on AutoBlogGreen, including a video. They appear to have done a lot of careful design: they did as much aerodynamic design as they could without having obvious things like [...]

Read the full article →

EcoModders Average 33 MPG, 25% over EPA

August 3, 2009

With nearly 3000 vehicles in the EcoModder garage, most of them logging data for over a year, we decided it was time to crunch some numbers to see how EcoModders stacked up in terms of real fuel savings. Well, the numbers are in. The average EcoModder gets 33.12 MPG, which is just a hair over [...]

Read the full article →

Cash for Clunkers Says Goodbye Tonight

July 31, 2009

It seems the popular CARS program, which was designed to run out when its $950 million funding ran out is almost out of money. The decision to suspend the program will probably come as a surprise to many consumers who were being more careful about thinking over their purchase, but evidently it is a result [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →