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Napoleon Miles - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Napoleon Miles is an expert author mainly interested in the automotive industry and the alternative energy that can be utilised by motor cars.
Napoleon Miles believes that both conventional and alternative forms of energy, and their appropriate use, have a huge impact on all of us, both financially and from a point of view on the environment.
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- Car Cruise Control - Is the Cruise Controlling You Or Are You Controlling the Cruise?
[Automotive] Apart many other benefits your car's cruise control can make you save on fuel as well. Long trips are a no brainers. But how many realize that it is just as beneficial in town? Yes, your car's cruise control works for those stretches of road under 55 mph too.
- Automobile Fuel Efficiency - Can You Minimize the Effect of Air Resistance?
[Automotive] Keeping air resistance in mind while driving sounded funny to me the first time I heard about it. However air resistance is an important factor for the efficiency of your automobile and to save on fuel costs. There are certain speeds that can help you to minimize the effect of air resistance as much as possible.
- Car Engine Maintenance - Take Heed of That Light!
[Automotive:Repairs] Your car's engine requires tuning to work at its potential for optimum fuel consumption. Duct tape over the 'check engine light' can keep you from glancing at it every now and then and wonder why it is flickering. But if the light means stop and fix the problem, do not think you can get away with and ignore it completely.
- How Does Friction Work?
[Automotive] Friction is the resistance between two objects. The friction between the road and the wheels of your car causes your car to move forward. Friction is therefore essential but we do not want too much of it. Anything that causes an increase in friction over what is required to drive your car safely is causing a waste of fuel.
- What is the Optimum Cruising Speed For Your Car For Best Fuel Efficiency?
[Automotive] The minimum optimum point is somewhere between 40 to 50 miles mark. This also depends on the type of car you have and depends also on many factors. This is also a rough estimate and it is quite difficult to determine in practice.
- How to Increase the Efficiency of Your Car by Taking Appropriate Care of Your Car's Tires
[Automotive] With proper care and by adopting proper habits you can considerably increase the efficiency of your car. This can be done by taking appropriate care of the car's tires. What can you do to increase the efficiency of your car by taking appropriate care of your tires? There are various things you can do.
- Cars and Safety - Use the Horn of Your Car in a Responsible Way
[Automotive] You may have the habit to use the horn of your car frequently. Take particular attention to children. Children may not be able to judge a situation as adults do. Honk in advance and let them know you are there. Forewarning anyone crossing the road is always better than honking when it is too late.
- Cars and Efficiency - What Are the Effects of Idling on Gas?
[Automotive] Many people have many misconceptions about idling. But what is the right thing to do regarding car idling? More and more evidence is pointing to the fact that you should minimize idling and put you engine off after a few seconds
- Cars and Safety - Beware of That Horn!
[Automotive] With one hand on the horn, we often forget how we hate being honked at ourselves. Many individuals are infuriated when honked at. They will so stubbornly continue on their way and will not give way to you. Further more excessive honking by an individual may also be a sign that that particular individual suffers from road rage.
- Cars and Efficiency - Plan Your Outings and Save on Fuel
[Automotive] Using your car excessively will only make you burn fuel unnecessarily and diminish the lifetime of your car. It is surprising how much you can save on your car's fuel with some planning.
- Your Car and Your Air Conditioner - A Simple Way to Start Your Journey in an Efficient Way
[Automotive] It is not a wonderful experience to present yourself to a board of interviewers or your new sweetheart after you had driven 2 hours in high temperatures. It is instead wonderful to be driving away in a comfortable environment and arriving at your destination spick and span. Important considerations need however to be taken when air conditioners are concerned.
- Cars and the Efficiency of Overinflated Tires
[Automotive] You may have heard about how overinflating the tires aided someone in cutting gasoline expenses. By overinflating your car's tires you reduce the friction but you also considerably reduce your chances of safely driving your car. Your car may even 'take off' but unfortunately your car is not an airplane and your airborne trip may last only a fraction of a second and the landing will not be quite smooth
- Cars and Efficiency - Avoid Drive Throughs and Useless Trips
[Automotive] Drive throughs can sound good especially when you are not in the mood to get out of the car or wait in a line in front of the counter. You have to creep at a snails' pace to the window to order and then there is another wait at the other window.
- Cars and Their Efficiency - Is Your Car Really Efficient?
[Automotive] No, probably your car is not that much efficient. You can easily improve the fuel efficiency by keeping your car in the best possible conditions to consume less fuel. You can also improve the efficiency of your car by driving in the correct way. You may also wish to consider simple modifications on your car that considerably increase the efficiency of your car. This will make you save a big deal on your fuel bill.
- Cars - The Importance of Maintaining Proper Tire Pressure on Fuel Consumption and Safety
[Automotive] The tires are where your car touches the road. Your car's tires are the part of the car that is going to take the most wear and tear from the road and they will be in constant contact with it.
- Cars - Can Friction Really Make You Pay More on Fuel For Your Car?
[Automotive] Yes, but friction is essential! But first what exactly is friction? Friction is said to be the force that opposes motion. For example if you go skiing down a hill you move very fast downwards. This occurs because at the point of where your skis are touching snow there is low degree of friction.
- Cars and Efficiency - How Convertibles Make You Pay Extra Money For Your Car's Fuel
[Automotive] Many of us are enchanted by the prospect of driving a convertible. It is fascinating to speed along the highway with an open top, especially if it is a nice day. Convertibles look cool and you look cool in them. Convertibles however do not come cheap. They are also expensive to run and have the added disadvantage that air resistance takes over much more of its toll than in any other type of car.
- Car Efficiency and Jackrabbit Starters - What Will You Lose?
[Automotive] Jackrabbit starts get you nothing but the childish pleasure of starting off from a red light before others do. We have to admit that all of us have done this sometimes. And what does that childish pleasure cause you? The car burns more fuel than it would have done with a proper start and the engine is revved up needlessly using up its life. There is also the grave danger of a waste of life involved with jackrabbit starts.
- Global Warming - The Effects on the Tourism Industry
[News-and-Society:Environmental] Global warming has an effect on tourism and the economies of many nations. Scientists are forecasting that the Caribbean and its surrounding areas will register a constant increase in temperature. The same can be said about the Mediterranean Basin. The consequences of global warming are a general shift in tourism from the Caribbean and the Mediterranean countries to that of Canada and the northern European countries.
- Who Invented the Water Powered Car?
[Automotive] The concept of the water car is not new. As far as 1807, a Swiss inventor, Francois Isaac de Rivaz built a car that used hydrogen extracted from water. Stanley Meyer, an American, designed a water car that separated oxygen and hydrogen from water through a process called electrolysis. Stanley Meyer was killed in mysterious circumstances. Many believe that he was poisoned by powerful people that had interests in the petroleum industry.
- Run Your Car on Water - Is This Technology Being Suppressed by Huge Organizations?
[Automotive] Large organizations and the powerful people behind them that have an interest in the petroleum industry have all the motives to suppress alternative technologies such as water cars. Such a technology will eat away their profits, if used on a worldwide scale. Unfortunately such powerful people are able to suppress such technology. They have the power, the money and the will to do so. And they are doing so! Fortunately the consumer is not totally defenseless.
- Run Your Car on Water - 5 Main Benefits
[Automotive] In a water powered car a low current from your car's battery is passed through water resulting in a gas called HHO or Browns Gas. This is in turn injected in the car's combustion engine cylinders. 5 major benefits will accrue to the car's owner.
- Can You Run Your Car on Water Solely?
[Automotive] You cannot run your car 100% on water. Such a technology is not possible today and it may even be impossible to do in the future. This is because such concept violates the first and second law of thermodynamics. However this does not mean that you cannot make your car run partially on water.
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