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Old 04-04-2012, 06:20 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by stAtrill View Post
Are you speculating?
He isn't.
The indication of fuel not being (fully) burned is the amount of CO and HC in the exhaust.
These amounts are small compared to the fuel used, so here's little to be gained by having the fuel burn more completely - it already is.

It's just not being burned very efficiently in a regular ICE - hence lean-burn and Atkinson cycle on some engines.

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I am here asking for ideas because being a hypermiler just isn't cutting it (we spend over a grand a month on gas...)
That's over 250 gallons ...
What kind of / how many vehicles / how far are you driving to burn that much fuel ?
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