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Our Hypermiler MPG Calculator app for Android now available in the marketplace!
I am very proud to confirm that our second app is now available for all you smart phone users out there. The Android version of our hugely popular Apple IOS application is now live and ready for you to download. Armed with only your trusty google flavoured phone you...
45mpg and a little disappointed.
My first true fill up in the Volvo was not quite what I expected. Thinking that I could return anything even near to the Skoda was a bad idea, a heavy smaller engined petrol car is no match for the efficency of the VAG fuel sipper. Over varied roads and conditions the...
UK Budget is out… fuel duty cut by 1p tonight 6PM [update]
Speaking to House of Commons today, George Osborne confirmed that Fuel Duty will be frozen CUT by 1p a litre as of 6PM tonight.The fuel prices escalator had been set to add another 5p on a litre of fuel at the beginning of April, this has been officially scrapped.In...
Our Weekly Hypermiling Tip #3: Drive without brakes (DWB)
Hypermiling and fuel saving tips have been bouncing around the media of late and this technique is one that's not considered by most. Driving without brakes isn't quite what you would think. Every time you brake you effectively turn fuel into heat & brake dust,...
George Osborne hints that fuel duty maybe frozen
Chancellor George Osborne has told the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show that he was "looking very carefully" at freezing the duty in Wednesday's Budget. In todays interview Mr Osbourne said he understood the pressure motorists were under from record-high petrol prices.The...
Hypermiler.co.uk in the Sunday Times
As fuel prices hit record highs around the world, interest in fuel saving tips and techniques has rocketed. Protests and broken government promises have been futile in bringing down fuel duty so motorists are taking the matter into their own hands. We have been...
Hypermiler.co.uk MPG Calculator app hits the app store… we rejoice!!
Like all many people who no longer think the world is flat, I am unable to function without my trusty smart phone. My sleek Apple flavoured device is not permitted to leave my sight unless it's forcibly crow-barred from my lifeless hands. Without it I am simply a...
Welsh call for 5p cut in rural petrol price
Wales has been in talks with the Treasury to include rural Wales in a scheme to cut petrol costs by up to 5p a litre "in the vallies, is it?!" isolated areas.The Conservative Welsh Minister David Jones made an announcement in the Commons, saying fuel prices were a...
Used cars in the US to get “MPG” sticker courtisy of the EPA
If you have been into any new car show room lately you will find that the fuel economy statistics feature very heavily on the promotional stickers and paperwork that supplement your new vehicle.This practice of giving clear information regarding fuel consumption has...