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Helping you get better gas mileage, save money on fuel, find more efficient cars, and be kinder to the environment.
How Hybrids Work Have you ever wondered how hybrid cars get such good gas mileage? Would you like to find out in less than 90 seconds? It?s That Time Of Year Again? As temperature drops in the fall and winter, so does the pressure in your car's tires. Low tire pressure means lower gas mileage and a greater risk of a blowout or other tire failure. Fuel Cell Car Video! Fuel cell cars may be the wave of the future, but this video shows that working prototypes exist today! To Rack Up Fuel Savings, Take Down The Racks It's summer and many people are enjoying a bike ride or paddle through nature. Too bad some of them are wasting gas and creating pollution in the process. 70 MPG Bionic Car! By analyzing how the boxfish swims and mimicing its aerodynamics, Mercedes has built a concept car that gets a combined 70 MPG. And at a constant 55 MPH it gets about 84 MPG! Are Vegetable Oil Cars In Your Future? Vegetable oil cars? They already exist! And we're not talking about biodiesel here, we're talking about driving a car that runs on vegetable oil diesel fuel alternative. Ethanol: The New Fuel Economy Darling Ethanol has recently become the fuel economy darling, but does it deserve that status? New Fuel = New Hope? By October 15, 2006 U.S. diesel fuel retailers must, by law, be selling cleaner burning ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel. With only a handful of U.S. passenger vehicle models currently offering diesel engine options, will this new, lower pollution fuel spark a diesel car revival? Convert Your Hybrid For Better Gas Mileage If you have a second-generation Toyota Prius, you'll soon be able to convert it to get twice the gas mileage. You could conceivably get 100 MPG+ for daily driving. A Better Hybrid Car? A hybrid vehicle gets better gas mileage than a gas engined vehicle by using an efficient electric motor whenever possible. So why not make it possible to use that electric motor more often and get even better gas mileage?