World’s Most Fuel Efficient Driver, ‘Hypermiling’ Advocate Wayne Gerdes, Leads Team That Squeezed Extra Miles From A 2014 Audi Q5 Clean Diesel

                               

Wayne Gerdes is at it again.

The champion of hypermiling, a bucolic driving style aimed at maximizing fuel efficiency, rolled into New York City Monday morning after a 48-hour cross-country trip from Los Angeles in a three-vehicle convoy of Audi’s newest clean diesel offerings.  

For Audi, the Ingolstadt, Germany-based carmaker owned by Volkswagen AG (FRA:VOW3), and second-largest luxury automotive brand, the trip offers publicity for its 2014 Q5 crossover, 2014 A7 four-door hatchback and 2014 A6 four-door sedan. The Audis utilize Volkswagen’s turbocharged direct injection (TDI) clean diesel technology, which gives the engines hybrid-like mileage without the sooty exhaust associated with old diesel-engine technology.

In 2011, Gerdes broke the world record for getting the most out of a hybrid car driving through all 48 contiguous U.S. states (64.55 mpg from a 2011 Kia Optima rated for 40 mpg). He also famously teased out an astounding 81.5 mpg out of Ford Fusion Hybrid in 2009, about twice the EPA highway rating of 41 mpg.

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