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Greenlings: Can pulse and glide work to improve electric vehicle highway range?

Posted on June 25, 2009

Wayne Gerdes explains hypermiling before the Ford Fusion 1,000 mile challengeRecently we got a question from a reader regarding the benefit of using the common hypermiling technique of pulse and glide with a battery electric vehicle. Given the relative scarcity of pure electric vehicles, P&G has mostly been used by hybrid drivers as one of the techniques to squeeze every last mile out of every drop of gasoline. There's a reason hypermilers use the technique: it is very effective. Since my own professional driver training has more to do with vehicle dynamics and getting through corners with t...

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