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D15r · 10-17-2017, 04:56 PM

In simple terms It's always more efficient to accelerate downhill than it is on the flat or up hill. But it needs to be applied with situational context and that's the tricky part which the driver has to compute :-P

10-17-2017, 04:56 PM	#7 (permalink)
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