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- noun One who uses special driving techniques to achieve unusually good fuel economy.
Etymologies
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Examples
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FLACK: Engels is what's known as a hypermiler, a group that takes good gas mileage to extremes.
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On Monday, a team of drivers, including hypermiler Wayne Gerdes and NASCAR driver Carl Edwards successfully completed the 1000 mile challenge, taking a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid 1005 miles on less than a single tank of gas.
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Back in January, I wrote a post at Treehugger about the then-current issue of Mother Jones, which included a feature story on “hypermiler” Wayne Gerdes.
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Had I driven like a maniacal hypermiler and avoided highways, which drain the battery much faster than back roads, I might have hit 200 miles.
Testing the Tesla Roadster Clifford Atiyeh 2009
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Back in January, I wrote a post at Treehugger about the then-current issue of Mother Jones, which included a feature story on “hypermiler” Wayne Gerdes.
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This is the only way to beat the hypermiler is to have one of these rigs right here, right?
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And one other thing, every hypermiler (INAUDIBLE) has one of these scan gauge.
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A good hypermiler doesn't carry anything extra in their cars.
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Our chief technology and environment correspondent Miles O'Brien got some lessons from the master hypermiler and, yes, he is driving and hypermiling and doing a live shot and not looking at the road and ticking off every cabbie on New York streets right now.
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And one other thing, every hypermiler (INAUDIBLE) has one of these scan gauge.
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