Is there any car that doesn't get horrible gas milage during accelaration?
I Currently drive a 2013 Honda Civic which has a meter in the dashboard that reads from 0-70 MPG with a 35 mark in the middle but it usually goes to 70 when i let off the gas then if i press the gas down even like insanely lightly. It goes to 15 mpg and its hard to tell what its at because it changes so much. So please help if you have any good input on the situation
There aren't any. That's just how cars are. The thing that matters is the average. I'd guess your civic does pretty well. I have a CR-V it has the same gauge.
That's one of the benefits of Hybrids.
Most of those gauges are driven from engine vacuum; a good proxy for fuel economy. The lesson is that hard acceleration will hurt your fuel economy. Believe that, but don't get too worked up about brief spikes low MPG while you're pulling away from a stop.
Instantaneous fuel mileage is of no use to anyone except dedicated hypermilers, and I know better than to try to talk them out of it.
I had a borrowed G35 that in the space of less than two miles had readings of 60 and 6 mpg. Worthless.
No such thing.
Laws of physics say that to accelerate an object, force needs to be applied to it. In the case of a car, that force comes from the engine burning extra fuel during acceleration. Once you reach a steady speed and ease off the gas the engine only needs to generate enough force to overcome friction, so it burns much less fuel, and your economy is much better.
So to get better mileage you need to accelerate gently and get up to a steady cruising speed and try and stay there. If you are constantly braking and accelerating again, you are going to use a LOT more gas. Every time you brake you loose that energy that the engine has made, in heating up the brakes, and then it needs to make more to get back up to speed. Again this explains why cars get poor mileage around town. You can't avoid lots of stop start driving, so you use a lot more fuel.
This is one area that hybrids can save fuel, they can use regenerative braking to recover some of that energy as you slow down, store it in the battery, and use it to accelerate again. It's not 100% efficient, and even hybrids will use more fuel in stop start conditions, but not as badly as a regular car. And it's better than wasting the energy heating up the brakes.
The Tesla Model S or X
Tesla makes them
I think youre confusing fuel gage with speedometer, but anyways your car gets extremely high mpg why are you saying it is horrible.
The smaller the engine and car, the less horrible the gas mileage.
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