The 2008 Oxford word of the year is…
Posted on 15. Dec, 2008 by Jonathan Cherry in Advertising
…,well in the American Oxford dictionary at least – The 2008 Word of the Year is hypermiling.
Hypermiling” was coined in 2004 by Wayne Gerdes.
“Hypermiling” or “to hypermile”
is to attempt to maximize gas mileage by making fuel-conserving
adjustments to one’s car and one’s driving techniques. Rather than
aiming for good mileage or even great mileage, hypermilers seek to push their gas tanks to the limit and achieve hypermileage, exceeding EPA ratings for miles per gallon.
Countries other than America [we simply call it driving efficiently] have been ‘hypermiling’ since cars were invented, but it’s good to have the US finally on board.
More:
Oxford University Press blog
Merriam-Webster’s words of the year
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16. Dec, 2008
I think there is driving efficiently, but in hypermiling there can be more to it like turning off your car at stoplights (robots) as well as the extreme of turning off the car on the road and drafting behind large trucks.