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Originally Posted by euromodder
Climbing inclines at 130 kph rather than "eco"-speed (95-105 kph) also reduces fuel consumption in my car...
Weird things seem to happen @ speed  |
Interestingly I find something similar which I have always attributed to momentum keeping the vehicle moving and saving that fuel guzzling shift back one gear and unlocking the convertor.
At 95 kph I can drive to work on the freeway with no changes but at 85 kph the transmission shifts back , for the few hills there are , enough to move the revs up from around 1600 to about 2000.
This in turn is enough to move the fuel used up to around 8.0l / 100 (US 29 mpg) from the usual 7.3 (US 32 mpg) or so. A jump of about 10 % which is a reasonable amount.
Peter.