Archive for the 'improve gas mileage' Category

Will Your Car Die Today?

Do you ever feel that you have too much to manage? That you don’t have a spare brain cell to try to remember one more thing? You’re not alone. Unfortunately, what you don’t remember to do, or don’t have time to do today, could be the one little maintenance chore that your car desperately [...]

Setting Cars Mileage Record on a Cross Country Tour

John and Helen Taylor set out from Herndon, VA on September 3rd on a road trip.  There goal is to visit all 48 contiguous United States in 24 days.  So far it’s not that unusual a story, but this isn’t just a once in a lifetime siteseeing trip.
The couple is attempting to set the world [...]

Cars Mileage Expressed as MPG or GPM?

Periodically an argument bubbles to the surface over the fundamentals of how we measure a car’s mileage. The argument is put forth that it makes far more sense to measure fuel use in gallons per mile, versus the miles per gallon we currently use.
A brand new post by Felix Salmon at Market Movers caught [...]

Gas Saving Devices: the Weird & Wonderful

Of course the reason to use a gas mileage calculator in the first place is to figure out exactly what your mileage is so that you can improve it. Once you have that information in hand you can make a better decision about buying an alternative fuel vehicle to help improve gas mileage. [...]

Ways to improve your vehicle gas mileage

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July in the US. Hopefully you didn’t have to travel too far to enjoy the fireworks. However, if you wound up sitting in a giant traffic jam after the show, we hope you turned your engine off. One of the old “truths” that I was [...]

150 MPG Extreme Hybrid SUV on CNN

Although we stumbled across this video quite late (the very thought of winter coats this time of year is horrid) we knew you’d want to see it too. So many talented individuals are striking out on their own to create hybrid cars that run on alternative fuels that stories like this are almost commonplace [...]