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Originally Posted by cowmeat
My advice is to coast it up to the light in neutral as quick as possible, and shut it down until you absolutely have to start it back up.
In the Black Widow, the very first hypermiling technique I ever employed was to simply shut it off at lights. I got an instant return of about 6 mpg on the tank! Then I was hooked!
Once your car is warmed up, it re-starts pretty easily, and unless your starter is an old p.o.s. you won't wear it out. Before I learned to bump start the Festiva, I would key start every time after EOC and P&G. I restarted that car literally thousands of times without killing anything
As far as coasting through stop signs, I never recommend anything like that. Hypermiling is a personal choice, but it shouldn't affect the other drivers you share the road with, unless you wanna give us all a bad name. 100% of my hypermiling is done without breaking any traffic laws (other than the Black Widow being off half the time) and without being a PITA to anybody around me.
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Some of the traffic lights on my routes are no more than 8-10 seconds. Is that even enough time to shut down to see a change in FE?