"pulse and glide" tips?

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(EricGo @ Apr 29 2006, 03:58 PM) [snapback]247308[/snapback]</div>

The short answer: because engine use < 1500 rpm is inefficient.

P&G is not the goal, it is the result of periodic smart engine use.
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Short answer. Right. What you are tying to do is keep the ICE in the most efficient range and then in the glide phase turn the ICE off and use the battery as little as possible. If you look at the "stock" MFD you will see no energy flow. That is not quite what is happening. In fact you are sending a small amount of electrical energy to MG2 to keep the car in "neutral" or glide mode. Indeed you can "feel" this. There are instruments such as the CAN View to define this process but you are 3/4 the way there with the MFD. So you may pulse to just above the speed limit ( on the up hill if you can) then "feather" the throttle to get into the no transfer of energy on the MFD, then glide down to as many mph as you can below the speed limit.