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And The Results Are In On Another Hydrogen Cell Test…
Author: Tim Benedict
• Friday, October 23rd, 2009

October 23, 2009.
The Results are in. I tested one of our prototype hydrogen booster cells over the road this week, and here are the results…

In a tired 4.3 Liter V6 Chevy Cheyenne ½ ton Pickup Truck that averaged 17mpg and burned a quart of oil every 100 miles (yikes!), I installed a magnet pack and one of the hydrogen cells pictured at http://www.EvergreenGasLabs.com. The mileage immediately jumped to 21 mpg, with more power and smoother running. This was running with no load: just me, my wife, and one of my kids, going down the freeway at 60 mph between Boise, Idaho, and Portland, Oregon.

Then I loaded up the bed of the truck with household stuff (I was helping move someone’s stuff), and hooked on a eight foot trailer and loaded it with an entire shop, including welders, table saw, grinders, air compressor, etc and so forth, several thousand pounds all tolled.

Then I tried driving this loaded down V6 for another 600 miles back to Boise, both with and without the hydrogen cell activated. Results? Without hydrogen: less than 14mpg with no power, lots of coughing, stumbling, knocking and pinging (especially on the hills), and in general just choking. Some low quality gasoline at a cheap gas station didn’t help any. Then I turned the hydrogen back on, and even I was shocked at the improvement in power, the decrease in coughing and stumbling, and overall increase in engine performance. This also got me back up to about 17mpg, better pulling power on the hills, and a higher highway speed before the engine started pinging and knocking.

Conclusions? The combination of the magnet pack and the hydrogen cell breathed life back into a very tired and undersized engine, increased its gas mileage by about 25%, noticeably increased its horsepower output, improved its overall engine smoothness, and let me burn the cheap/bad gas through the system without a huge loss in performance. These results also mirror my results from last summer’s highway trip that I took to Bellingham, Washington, with my original prototype hydrogen cells and magnet packs, where I got better speeds, more power, and about 25% improved mileage in a Chevy 5.8L V8 Suburban.

Remember, this is at highway speeds. In my experience, the cells often produce even better mileage than this at slower city driving and stop and go speeds.

I learned lots of little tips and tricks along the way as well to improve future models of the hydrogen cell, one of which I installed on a friend’s vehicle the day after I returned from Portland this week. The DO work, and they work WELL.
Sincerely,
Tim,

Founder/Owner Evergreen Gas Labs (dot com)

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The 5 Aspects of Getting Better Gas Mileage
Author: Tim Benedict
• Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Everyone wants to get better gas mileage, but not everyone really understands how to make it happen. So they focus on this area or that process, without ever truly realizing that a good gas mileage improvement plan has five different facets to it, or spokes of a wheel, if you will. Sure, focusing on one spoke at a time will usually get you some results, but it’s not until you address all five spokes that true and impressive gains in gas mileage can be had. Let’s look at each of these facets briefly.
 
1. The Driver Factor. Believe it or not, the driver and his or her driving style, can have a huge impact on gas mileage. City driving always chews into mileage more than highway driving. Treating every stoplight like a Grand Prix kickoff (jack rabbit starts and high speed driving), and stopping suddenly too, both chew into mileage. But driving the speed limit, choosing a route that has the fewest stoplights, coasting to a stop at a traffic light, and being content to ease off the starting line when the light turns green, all these will extend your mileage significantly.
 
2. The Car Itself. Is it tuned up? Are the tires inflated right? Is the engine oil good? Are you giving your car proper maintenance? Are you keeping the paint job good? Good maintenance is one of the easiest ways to improve your mileage back to near (or better than) factory specifications.
 
3. The Fuel. Good fuel gets better mileage than bad fuel. And contaminated fuel can cost you more than just mileage (repairs come to mind). Tweaking the fuel to be something, or with something, that burns better than standard gasoline or diesel fuel does, or insisting upon always using high quality fuel, these are both good ways to increase your gas mileage.
 
4. The Air. Believe it or not, there are things about the air going into your engine that can seriously affect its performance, and thus, its mileage. Cooler air contains more Oxygen in it, and can expand more, than hot air can inside the cylinder. Humid air can also expand more than dry air inside the cylinder (also better efficiency). Clean air burns better than dusty or smoggy air. Pressurized air contains more Oxygen in it than straight air. Etc and so forth.
 
5. The Exhaust. There are ways you can even tweak the exhaust system to produce better mileage. You can do things like upsize the exhaust piping, install a second parallel catalytic converter, install a tailpipe turbocharger, or even utilize the heat coming off the exhaust line and catalytic converter to produce power, electricity, and more, all geared to improving mileage, emissions, and horsepower.
 
By focusing on a “whole-car approach” and addressing all five of these items simultaneously in their quest to get better gas mileage, a person can substantially improve the mileage in almost any combustion based engine that they own, whether it be gasoline or diesel, big or small.   
 
If you want to know more and really dig into the meat of how to work with all five aspects of improving gas mileage, buy the 70+ page ebook “Over 50 Ways to Get Better Gas Mileage” available at http://www.HowToGetBetterGasMileage.com, written by the inventor Tim Benedict, and see for yourself how easy it is to actually start saving money by getting better gas mileage in your vehicle today.
 
Sincerely,
The staff at Evergreen Gas Labs

 

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