Thursday, March 25, 2010

Least Fuel Efficient Cars


The least fuel efficient car in the United States in 2009 was the Lambourghini Murcielago manual, Lambourghini Murcielago Roadster manual getting 13 mpg in the city and 8 mpg on the highway. Woah, that's bad.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Most Fuel Efficient Car


The most fuel efficient car in 2007 in the United States was the Toyota Prius, getting 60 mpg when driving in the city and about 51 mpg on the highway. This was a long time ago, before the acceleration accidents, but that is a lot of mpg.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Hypermiling


I was searching for spanish fuel consumption information, but eventually I gave up and looked up things for worldwide fuel consumption. I came across an interesting title: hypermiling. This means to make every drop of gasoline count monetarily. Some of these techniques that are legal include going at a certain speed, staying focused, and determining the shortest or least trafficked route before you leave. Some illegal ones are turning off the car when at a good acceleration or turning off the engine when at maximum speed. Also, I changed my language in blogger to spanish (espanol).

Friday, March 19, 2010

Average fuel efficiency


I have been looking for the average fuel efficiency of cars from 2009. I haven't been able to find it, only finding the fuel efficiency for individual car types. There are too many for me to list, but my estimation would be around 25-30 mpg.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Fuel efficient cars


This is my first blog about fuel efficient cars. There is some variety among these, but there are 3 types that are the biggest types: 1. Cars with a high MPG (miles per gallon), often known as fuel efficiency or gas mileage; 2. There are electric cars, running completely on electricity; a name for some of these are smart cars; 3. There are hybrid cars, a mix between gas cars and electric cars; I believe they use gas to accelerate as they turn on and to turn on.