Hugely dissapointed with hypermiling results
Ok, so my car is an 02 saturn sl2 auto. I dive with a permit so my grandmother also drives the car. Although she isn't an ecomodder or a hypermiler she is preety conservative with her driving. We also do only city driving sadly however, after calculating this weeks mileage i got BELOW EPA(25 mpg city) with (125 miles on 5.12 gallons of gas) This yields 24.4 mpg. So far what I've been doing: coasting down hills (engine on in gear), not revving up past 2000 rpm when possible when accelerating, only turning the ac on when other passengers say so ( cuts ac usage by 1/3 ), avoiding excess idling whenever possible, tricking the transmission to go into fourth at 35 (allows me to go 35 at 1500 rpm) and once in a while taking a slow parking lot hill in neutral. Also note I am not allowed to modify the car aerodynamically and for comfort/ apparant safety reason I am not allowed to put the tire pressure above 35 PSI. WHAT DO I DO???!!!
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