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If you use batteries to accelerate, it won't feel that slow. And you'll be driving a car that can get infinite MPG and not use any electricity - isn't that a hypermiler's dream?
The main problem, of course, is getting a useful speed from pedal power alone. If it's possible to build a car using only pedal power that can keep up with a highly hypermiled (>120MPG) original Insight, it could be interesting to follow that hypermiled Insight and then claim infinite MPG at the same speed as the hypermiled Insight. Actually, if recharge times are excluded, it would be very easy. Just take an EV, drive it as usual, then recharge the batteries with pedal generators. Not sure if that'll count as "no electricity used" but it does count as "no grid electricity used".
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If America manages to eliminate obesity, we would save as much fuel as if every American were to stop driving for three days every year. To be slender like Tiffany Yep is to be a real hypermiler...
Allie Moore and I have a combined carbon footprint much smaller than that of one average American...
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