Comments on: Hypermiling: making a game out of being green http://dougwick.com/2007/07/24/hypermiling-making-a-game-out-of-being-green/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:03:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: discussion 8 http://dougwick.com/2007/07/24/hypermiling-making-a-game-out-of-being-green/#comment-197 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:40:25 +0000 http://wicksite.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/hypermiling-making-a-game-out-of-being-green/#comment-197 [...] ge ecoimagination http://www.grcblog.com/?author=6 building dashboards http://www.luciddesigngroup.com/ dougwick.com/2007/07/24/hypermiling-making-a-game-out-of-being-green/ [...]

]]> By: Doug Wick http://dougwick.com/2007/07/24/hypermiling-making-a-game-out-of-being-green/#comment-27 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:29:45 +0000 http://wicksite.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/hypermiling-making-a-game-out-of-being-green/#comment-27 Avi: It seems like you’ve got the scores, you’ve got the ideas for why they might be changing, now all you need is to put those ideas into place to increase your score – then it seems like you would truly be a hypermiler. Thanks for the additional tips, I wonder why the weather is such a factor?

Now here’s a car for the people who want to be green without giving up the juice, the Tesla Roadster. It looks like you can burn through that battery pretty quickly though, and you need to drop almost $100K.

]]> By: Jim http://dougwick.com/2007/07/24/hypermiling-making-a-game-out-of-being-green/#comment-26 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:20:51 +0000 http://wicksite.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/hypermiling-making-a-game-out-of-being-green/#comment-26 I read that CNN report and cringed, already envisioning legions of priuses clogging the already too slow roads of our nation. In fact, any time I get behind a Prius I groan because I know the driver of said Prius is going to Granny it along, and probably feel smug while doing it.

‘Cept for Al Gore’s kid, driving a Prius-pharmacy-on-wheels at 100 mph. Now that’s a driving style I can get behind.

]]> By: Avi http://dougwick.com/2007/07/24/hypermiling-making-a-game-out-of-being-green/#comment-25 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:41:37 +0000 http://wicksite.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/hypermiling-making-a-game-out-of-being-green/#comment-25 A few stats from the life and times of Elroy the Prius, as driven by yours truly:

- Average mpg to O’Hare and back to the Loop: 60.1; conditions: sunny, 80 degrees; traffic: heavy.

- One-week average during July 2007: 56.1 mpg; conditions: mostly hot and sunny; traffic: typically awful.

- Average February 2007 mpg: 38.2; conditions: absurdly cold; traffic: disillusioned winter drivers.

Couple of observations: weather is clearly a factor; A/C does not appear to dramatically affect mileage; first five minutes of driving inevitably have worse mpg than subsequent; attractive women appear to appreciate a man in a Prius (hearsay).

Am I a hypermiler yet?

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