12-31-2016, 02:23 PM
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I picked up a $10 outside lighting timer off the clearance rack at home depot. It is good for 1875 watts resistive, and is also designed to be out in the weather. One of my peeves about plugging in is how wasteful it is to leave a rig plugged in all night if you don't need it. Just figure out when to start the heat with a little trial and error.
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For my Prius' block heater, I plug the extension cord to the heater into a power strip in the garage (heater is only 400w, so I shouldn't be in danger of burning my house down). A couple hours before I leave, I go into the garage and flip on the power strip, then turn it off right before I leave the house. That way I don't have a live cord at the car that I'm messing with while my hands are potentially wet from snow and ice.
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01-02-2017, 07:57 PM
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When your odo, DTE, and avg mpg all go up during your commute 😎
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01-03-2017, 04:11 AM
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You know you're an Ecomodder when you're admiring your neighbours new sports car, and then first question you ask is, "what'll she do? Miles per gallon that is?"
You know you're an Ecomodder when you win the lottery but pass on a mew Ferrari because you're not happy with the flow separation characteristic at the rear corners.
You know you're an Ecomodder when you pull up at a petrol station and spend more time in the car afterwards with a pen, paper and calculator, than you did filling with fuel.
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01-03-2017, 04:17 AM
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Ecomodder, yes...!
More time on the pen than on the gas ��
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01-27-2017, 04:41 PM
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When you only drive your PHEV into the gas station in EV mode, fill up, then leave in EV mode because you have a standing rule to never use gasoline to enter or leave a gas station.
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01-27-2017, 06:41 PM
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...beats walking...
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"ELECTRONS are forever...GASOLINE not so much!"
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01-31-2017, 01:51 AM
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Household lights
When you glide past a house and know that they could be using 90% less power by switching to led.
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01-31-2017, 03:54 AM
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When you get excited about driving to work in the morning because of all the MPGs you're going to try to get!!
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03-23-2017, 04:20 PM
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When you have adblock on your pc but have it set to not block the ads on your favorite ecomodding site! 
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03-23-2017, 05:32 PM
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When you have adblock on your pc but have it set to not block the ads on your favorite ecomodding site! |
Ha! Had no effect, must be that star or something. But I'll allow it just in case 
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