Everyone says that we need to improve our gas mileage, but not everyone understands what is necessary to make that happen in the real world. So they focus their efforts on this area or that process, without ever ‘getting it’ that a good gas mileage improvement plan has five different aspects to it, or spokes of a wheel. Sure, focusing on just one facet of the equation at a time will usually get you some results, but it’s not until you address all five facets of the equation together that much higher gains in gas mileage are seen. Let’s take a more in depth look at each of these parts of the puzzle briefly.  

1. The Driver’s Impact on Mileage. Believe it or not, the driving style of the driver can have a definite impact on a vehicle’s gas mileage. City driving always gets lower mileage than highway driving does. Treating every stoplight like a race starting line, and stopping suddenly too, both chew into your vehicle’s mileage. But simply driving at or under the speed limit, choosing a route that has fewer stoplights along it, coasting to a stop at each light, and being content to not be the first vehicle off the starting line when the light turns green, all these will noticeably improve your gas mileage.  

2. The Actual Car. Is the engine tuned up? Are the tires aired up right? Are you due for an oil change? Are you taking care of your vehice the right way? Are you maintaining your vehicle’s paint job? Good maintenance is one of the easiest ways to keep your mileage near showroom specifications.

  3. The Engines Fuel. High grade fuel will help you get better gas mileage than low grade gas will. And contaminated fuel will cost you in repairs as well as lower mileage. Modifying the fuel to burn better than simple gasoline does, and buying high quality gasoline to start with, these are both good ways to get better gas mileage.  

4. The Air Going Into Your Sytem. Believe it or not, there are also ways you can improve the actual air stream going into your engine that will help the fuel burn more efficiently, and thus, improve your gas mileage too. Cooler air contains more Oxygen in it, and can expand more, than hot air can inside the cylinder. Humid air also absorbs more heat than dry air does, and thus expands more too inside each cylinder (meaning better efficiency and power). Clean air promotes better combustion in your engine than dusty or smoggy air does. Air under pressure packs more Oxygen into a tighter space than regular air does. And so on and so on.

  5. The Exhaust Sytem.There are even things you can do to your exhaust system to produce better gas mileage in your vehicle. You can do things like increasing the size of your exhaust pipes, replacing your catalytic converter and muffler with larger ones, add a tailpipe turbocharger, or even recycling the wasted heat found in the exhaust system, all to help your vehicle get better mileage.

  By focusing on a “whole-car approach” and addressing all five of these items simultaneously in their quest to get better gas mileage, a person can substantially improve the mileage in almost any combustion based engine that they own, whether it be gasoline or diesel, big or small.  

    If you really want to dig into and truly understand all five aspects of the ‘improving gas mileage’ equation, and the ways to tweak each, get the indepth ebook “Over 50 Ways to Get Better Gas Mileage” available at http://www.HowToGetBetterGasMileage.com, as compiled by http://www.EvergreenGasLabs.com.