| ~Nude Auto Mall~Gas Mileage: You want it, your not getting it, of course your buying your car.
Driving habits certainly effect your fuel mileage, simple things like easing up to speed and disengaging your transmission when reducing speed can give a nice increase in Gas Mileage.
Maintenance, poorly running vehicles waste fuel.
Gearing is a major factor in Gas Mileage, if your idling at 4000 rpm to maintain your speed you are likely wasting Gas. Load and Resistance determines how much power you need to maintain any given speed. But most vehicles would maintain their speed just fine at about 1000 rpm.
Liquid Gasoline does not burn. Fortunately it converts to a Gaseous form easily. Unfortunately it can just as easily convert back into a Liquid. To get the most power and the best performance we want Gasoline to reach the Combustion Chamber in a 100% Gaseous state at the moment of explosion. Anything less and you are just pumping liquid Gasoline out your exhaust, as most vehicles do. Fuel Efficiency as a rating of Gasoline burnt vs unburnt Gasoline pumped out you exhaust. Most Scholars would probably argue that a 100% is not possible, but I would have to argue that anything is possible, no matter how inprobable.
Air, engines need to breathe. Air helps in the converting of the liquid into a gaseous state. The more air we can force into that combustion chamber and the more we can agitate the liquid with that air, the more liquid we will convert to Gas. Of course there is a saturation point, we can't burn air, well we havent polluted the air that bad yet.
Friction, the more friction, the more power it takes to move it, ie more Gas.
Leverage, the better the lever, the less energy it takes to move something.
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