Yesterday I posted a blog about good and bad ways to improve gas mileage.

Adamg followed up with a comment that I should not have tarred all “Hypermilers” as being supporters and participants in some of the less positive techniques of improving gas mileage.

He is absolutely right. My first thought should have been to praise those “Hypermilers” who are doing everything they can to improve gas mileage and doing it in a safe manner. They are to be lauded, and the rest of us should do everything we can to emulate and replicate their efforts.

Adamg referred to a technique called “Pulse and Glide” that I was not previously familiar with. I’ve done a small amount of reading, and it appears that it’s a technique that is specific to owners of hybrid cars. In this technique, hybrid drivers alternate between periods of Pulsing and periods of Gliding while trying to avoid using the Prius’ large hybrid car battery.   If you have a hybrid, give it a go.

http://hybridcars.about.com/od/ownership/a/pulseandglide.htm