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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
This thread makes me feel the need to talk about walking 5 miles to and from school both ways up hill in the winter.
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Darn! I only had to do two miles - but the snow did get pretty deep :-)
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It's obviously not going to be about fuel economy mods.
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How can it, when there are really no effective mods that the OP will accept? As far as I can see, within his constraints the only thing that could possibly give him a significant improvement would be to strip most of the body off his pickup, and cover it with a full teardrop aeroshell. Even then, he'd have to use serious ingenuity to retain use of the pickup bed.
Getting into the realm of the probably impractical, he could build or buy a Stirling engine, hook it to an efficient generator and maybe $100K worth of lithium batteries, and have a hybrid that'd do what he wants. But like the Marine's Humvee replacement, it ain't gonna be cheap.