Beat the petrol price hike! Could hypermiling be the answer to soaring fuel costs?

Hypermiling - driving for maximum fuel efficiency - used to be a niche pursuit. But with high petrol prices, Guinness World Record winner Kevin Brooker thinks we can all learn something from it. Here are his tips Kevin Booker fell into hypermiling. Or perhaps he coasted gently downhill into it, hypermiling being the art of driving in a way to maximise fuel efficiency. Anyway, he's an accidental hypermiler; it started as something to relieve the boredom of the daily 70-mile commute, from Swansea to Brecon, where he works for National Parks. "It was almost a way to gamify it, to get the fuel I was using to go further," the 44-year-old tells me. "I was learning the techniques to get the most out of that gallon." We'll come to the techniques.It was a useful game. "The bonus was I was saving money. Over a month, I could save up to ?50 without really increasing my journey time." This was back in 2003, when a litre of petrol or diesel (Booker drove a diesel Vauxhall Corsa in those days) cost less than a pound. Continue reading...