How to improve your Car's Gas Mileage?

With soaring oil prices its is has become inevitable for almost every person around the globe to improve his car fuel efficiency and mileage. Improving the fuel efficiency of your car is not a rocket science,by adopting some simple and easy-to-do economy measures you can considerably improve the fuel efficiency of your car.Here are some useful tips on how to improve the gas mileage of your car:

1. Engine Tuning: By keeping your engine tuned up with spark plugs in good condition,proper fuel ratio and proper spark timings you can considerably improve the gas mileage of your car. 
2. Keep Tyres Properly Inflated: Make sure the tyres of your car are properly inflated.Under inflated tyres cause your engine to exert force in overcoming the resistance offered by under inflated tyres while maintaining the speed you desire.Gas mileage of your car can be improved upto 3.3 percent by keeping the tyres of your care inflated to the proper pressures as recommended by the owner's manual of your car.
3. Try to Avoid Using Air Conditioner: You should use the air conditioner of your car only if it is inevitable, as the compressor of the air conditioner puts a lot of strain on the engine which greatly lowers the fuel efficiency of your car.
4. Use Good Engine Oil: Engine oil plays a major role in improving the life and fuel efficiency of your engine.Use synthetic engine oil with cleansing and fiction reducing additives.A good quality engine oil can improve the fuel efficiency of your engine by almost 12%. Also change the engine oil of your car after certain number of miles on regular basis.Also use manufacturer's recommended grade of motor oil.
5. Keep the Windows of your Car Closed at High Speed: While driving your car at high speed you should keep the windows of your car closed, as the engine of your car has to put a lot of extra force in overcoming the drag caused by the open windows of the car. 
6. Develop Good Driving Practices: The way you drive your car plays an important role in fuel consumed by your car. If you have the habit of abruptly speeding up your car and applying brakes suddenly,then this is not good for your engine as this type of driving practice puts a lot strain on your engine and your engine has to work really hard to speed up suddenly and to stop suddenly. While driving your car up a hill do not speed up your car as speeding up your car while climbing up a hill puts a lot of strain on the engine of your car as your engine is already working hard to overcome the force of gravity while climbing up the hill.This type of practice is not only results in poor fuel efficiency but also it may result in heating up the engine of your car.While driving on the road you should try to develop a habit of anticipating whether you have to speed up your car or slow down your car according to the traffic rush,turns on the road and condition of the road.This may help improve the fuel efficiency of your car.Rapid acceleration and braking wastes much fuel and on high way it may reduce the fuel efficiency by 33% and by almost 5 percent while driving around the town.
7. Avoid Engine Idling: Engine idling is not a good practice.It may waste  up to half gallon fuel per hour depending size of engine and use of air conditioner.So to save the fuel you should keep the engine turned off when your car is parked.It takes a very little effort but it may greatly help you save the fuel.

Terex Titan – The World’s Largest Truck

The Terex Titan 33-19 is one of  the world's largest trucks designed by Terex Division of General Motors Inc.It was a prototype off-highway truck assembled at General Motor's Diesel Division's London,ON,Canada assembly Plant in 1973.It was an ultra class,three-axle,rigid frame,diesel/AC electric power-train haul truck.According to wikipedia only one truck of this type was ever produced and it was the biggest and the highest capacity haul truck in the world for 25 years.It was first shown to public in 1974 at the American Mining Congress in Las Vegas,Nevada.It remained in service for 13 years.Now it is preserved on static display as a tourist attraction in Sparwood,BC,Canada.

                                     Figure 1 : Front view of Terex Titan 33-19
                                                     (Image source : flickr.com)

Peel P50 - The world's smallest car

The Peel P50 is a three wheeled microcar originated from Isle of Man,UK.It is manufactured by Peel Engineering,UK.According to Peel Engineering,the Peel P50,being only 54 inches long and 41 inches wide,is claimed to be the world's smallest car.It has held this title for almost 50 years.According to Peel Engineering,Peel P50 to date still carries the Guinness Book of Records as the  World's Smallest Production Car of All time.
According to official website of  Peel Engineering,Peel P50 was first produced between 1962 to 1965 and only 50 cars were manufactured.The earliest version of this car was equipped with only one headlight,seat,door and wiper.It was powered by a diminutive 49cc two stroke engine.It is regarded as the simplest car equipped with minimal components.The video of Peel P50 originally recorded by Peel Factory on an 8mm tape is shown in Video1.This video does not contain any sound.

Video 1 : Original video by Peel Factory

SmartBird – bird flight deciphered by Festo

The flight of birds has always fascinated the mankind,this is why it is one of the oldest dreams of mankind to fly like a bird.Though a man still can't fly like a bird but the flight of birds has finally been deciphered by Festo,in 2011,through creation of its masterpiece of technology i.e.,SmartBird - the robotic bird.Festo,a company based in Germany,is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology.A model of SmartBird is shown in Figure 1 below.

                                          Figure 1 : A model of SmartBird 
                                                   (Image Source : Festo)

Top 10 Alternatives to Google Adsense

Google AdSense is an advertising company owned by Google Inc.,which is a global marketing leader in contextual advertising.google adsense may be regarded as the greatest source of income for web publishers and bloggers.Online sources claim that there is not match to Google AdSense.A couple of years ago it was quite easy to get your blog or website approved by Google AdSense but with the passage of time as the number bloggers and web publishers producing quality content is growing the policies of google adsense have also become quite strict to approve any website or blog for serving contextual Ads to that website or blog that serve as a source of income for the blog or website whenever  any visitor to that website or blog clicks on the Ads being displayed on the website or blog.These days it is not only very difficult to get your blog or webiste approved by google adsense but also google adsense shows zero tolerance in disabling the AdSense accounts of those web publishers or bloggers which have  been approved by google adsense and are caught violating the policies and rules of google adsense.Google AdSense has adopted strict policies for web publishers and bloggers to maintain its quality of service and to protect the rights of its advertisers.