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I was just looking on google earth for elevations of my ride to check out all of my to work options. I didnt find anything better than my current one however I did find that my one EOC goes from an elevation of 1903 down to 799 over about 6 miles. Kind of funny because if I was looking over a 1200 foot cliff I would be sick but drive that everyday.
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Cool! But the return drive must SUCK going back up 1200 ft.
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It would be tough to test on city "courses", but I think if enough runs were performed then you could at least deduce the benefits after figuring the margin of error between runs.
First you'd have to do a number of "normal driving" runs with no FE technique. Once you have a sufficient baseline established then you could try some FE technique runs and see how much gain you acheive down and up hill. |
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It works great if you get to coast down the hill at no fuel use and without braking to loose energy. Going up hill runs the engine at a higher load but not quite half the MPG of level driving and going down hill returns a much higher MPG generally.
Just setup the SGI in a Dodge Caravan V6 3.3 liter - the thing suck 0.5gph at idle!!!! My xB used 0.2-0.1gph for 1.5liters - holy cow! |
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