Photo: AOPA With 2 People on Board (Unlike Photo Above) digg_url = ' Klaus Savier likes to have his cake and eat it too. Usually with airplanes, speed and efficiency are a tradeoff. You go slower and burn less fuel, or you go faster and burn more fuel (all else being equal). This is why it is...Read the full story on TreeHugger

A new accessory from Garmin, the ecoRoute ESP cable, connects to your car's on-board diagnostic system (OBD-II) and links to Bluetooth-enabled Nuvi 1xxx series GPS units to provide a plethora of data on your car's health in an easy-to-read, visual format. What sets it apart is the eco-dashboard seen in the screenshot above.  Looks like a neat way for hypermilers -- or hypermilers in ...

With 2 People on Board (Unlike Photo Above) Klaus Savier likes to have his cake and eat it too. Usually with airplanes, speed and efficiency are a tradeoff. You go slower and burn less fuel, or you go faster and burn more fuel (all else being equal). This is why it is impressive that Mr. Savier won this year's Fuelventure 400 in his modified VariEze (originally designed by the famous Burt ...

... now; as electrics and more efficient hybrids populate our roads more and more, the idea of hypermiling seems to be no longer a cool technique employed by savvy drivers, but a weird fuel- ... , certainly a symptom of the personal-broadcasting era that we’ve all observed. Hypermiling was chosen for its immediacy, which does not correlate well with longevity. Yet podcasting, chosen in 2005, is ...

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America has spoken. The ugliest car of the past 50 years is . . .  These 5 promising, high flying wind projects seek to tap into the jet stream. A hypermiling plane got better gas mileage than most cars do. And the design for this new 'flapping' wind turbine was inspired in bumble bee wings.  NASA found a better used for two unmanned warplanes that were just lying ...