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Old 11-03-2021, 12:03 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Which wire did you solder? How did you get it to light up the tires? My Caddy moves, but it doesn't have much off the line snap. Not enough to spin tires.

I have a 2012 Caddy Hybrid that my wife drives 15 miles a day and the Speed limit never goes over 45mph. My regen seems to work just fine. When we were in Maine visiting family we got better gas mileage (22mpg) going to town and back on back roads. But back here in SWFL we struggle to get 17mpg on her daily commute. Any tips, or thoughts? The main road is 45mph with a ton of stoplights. If I had the money and know-how I'd love to gut the battery pack and load it up with Lithium batteries and covert it to a Plug-in hybrid.
Research findings were published by the Texas State Governor's Office in the 1990s for experiments with traffic light synchronization and found that, for every $1 spent, motorists would realize $62 in savings, due to conservation of momentum, and not having to keep accelerating from red lights.
So Texas de- synchronized any existing timed traffights, in order to expand state fuel sales profit revenue to their pension funds, instead of saving money for motorists.
Stop-start, and hybrid only gets one so far.
Our AeroStealth simulated synchronized traffic lights for Las Cruces, New Mexico, and his 2014 Ford F-150 4X4 Crew Cab, EcoBoost, 6.5-ft bed, went from 18-mpg, to 36-mpg, at around 40-mph.

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Old 12-20-2021, 03:41 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Because of the metric "mpg" you have to flip it around to get reduction in fuel used:

15 mpg = 6.67 gal/100 mi
20 mpg = 5 gal/100 mi
((5.00 - 6.67) / 6.67) * 100 = 25% reduction in fuel consumed

Really, mpg is a stupid metric precisely because of this, where 33% improvement in mpg != 33% reduction in fuel consumed.
But if you are going from 15 to 20mpg going to the hybrid wouldn't that be a 33% increase in fuel efficiency?
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But if you are going from 15 to 20mpg going to the hybrid wouldn't that be a 33% increase in fuel efficiency?
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