Yesterday was a significant day in my 23 years of driving: my first major car accident. I was in my usual commute home from work, a 25 minute trek on side streets to avoid late afternoon rush hour on the highways. Traffic was reasonable until I was about 5 miles away from my house, on […]
A few people around me are talking about doing a “hypermile” with their cars. In a nutshell, hypermiling is a fuel economy maximizing behavior, or a set of tricks to gain more miles per gallon. For the most part, the recommendations are good advice. For me, I can’t do all the tricks because it depends […]
I love my 2003 Civic Hybrid. It’s reliable. It gets me from A to B, safely. It’s fuel efficient. It has an 80 HP engine on gasoline and additional 30 HP on battery electric power. Not much requirement for fossil fuel. When I stop at a traffic light, the engine shuts off automatically. This car […]
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