Re: Pulse and Glide Class - Sign up. Trainers needed (MHG 9/17 meeting)
It's basically what you are doing, except for the using electric mode to maintain speed. What P&G does is use the ICE to get up to speed, then take your foot off the gas, letting the ICE shut down, then put your foot back on the gas ever so slightly so that you aren't using the electric motor, or the gas motor, just coasting using hardly any power. Once speed drops down to a certain level you fire up the ICE again to 'pulse' back up to speed, and repeat. The idea is to use the ICE in it's most efficient mode (~50% output) rather than maintaining speed with the ICE at say 15% output where it's less efficient. In order for it to work the coasting portion needs to be about 3x as long as the pulse portion.
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