...or is it? I was about to write a post about how I have improved my gas mileage in the Sienna almost 5 mpg just by not running the air conditioning when I am driving around town, and by coasting in neutral whenever I have a downhill slope or am approaching a red light. I'm very pleased by my results in doing these two things. When I refilled the Sienna yesterday, I was thrilled to figure out that I got just under 20 mpg. I figure there were maybe 50 highway miles out of 300 driven, so that's phenomenal.
I wanted to find an article that I could link to that would illustrate what I would consider the other "way out there" techniques of hypermiling. As luck would have it, I found one right on the front page of msn.com. I was a little disappointed, though, to read that the authors thought that turning off the a/c only helped if you did not roll down the windows and that coasting in neutral was dangerous.
So, take it for what it's worth. Because I don't have to deal with triple-digit heat in the summertime, I am still going to roll the windows down a bit instead of using the a/c, and I am going to coast whenever I can (generally not on busy streets with lots of traffic). An additional 5 mpg is nothing to sneeze at these days.
