Hypermilers are car owners who work very hard to exceed the EPA rated mileage on automobiles through various techniques such as coasting on nuetral, not applying brakes, using the draft of large trucks to add extra mileage, turning the a/c off, trying to time stop lights, employing techniques such as pulse and glide, etc.

There are numerous accounts of hypermilers breaking each others mileage records on the net. Wayne Gerdes, one of the founders of the hypermilers concept drives a Honda Accord and gets about 58 mpg. His technique? “I start rolling down the driveway, follow about a sixteenth of a mile, ignite the motor to 25 miles per gallon for about four seconds, then shut it down and glide,” he says.
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Honda announced that it will discontinue its hybrid Accord version focussing more on smaller vehicles.

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