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Weather Spotter · 08-21-2012, 06:15 PM

Ideally you would accelerate at optimum speed, kill the engine and coast down to a low speed and repeat. We call in Pulse and Glide. Then the engine is only ever running at peak efficiency.

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Weather Spotter Wiki Mod Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Midland MI, USA Posts: 2,042 Max - '14 Ford C-Max SEL Thanks: 228 Thanked 304 Times in 210 Posts	Ideally you would accelerate at optimum speed, kill the engine and coast down to a low speed and repeat. We call in Pulse and Glide. Then the engine is only ever running at peak efficiency. __________________