By: How 'hypermiling' can save fuel | Writing about cars

[…] The two drivers, Wayne Gerdes and Bob Winger, weren’t new to this: they had, in fact, beaten their own previous record of 77.9 mpg obtained on the same route in 2013. The very term ‘hypermiling’ was coined by Gerdes in 2004, and it became the Oxford Word of the year in 2008. […]