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Hypermiling for your electric motor


A how-to guide to increase the serviceable lifespan of industry’s workhorse By Neil Ballinger, General Manager EMEA at EU Automation


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t’s the middle of Summer and you are sitting in traffic. It’s so hot that the tarmac is melting on the road. The traffic begins to


roll, and you start to pull away. But how do you stay cool? Open the window or crank up the air-con? I would like to explain why the answer to this question can also teach you how to hypermile your electric motor.


12 June 2022 Irish Manufacturing Hypermiling, or the technique of driving


your car in such a way that you use as little fuel as possible, has never been more popular. The massive increases in the wholesale price of crude oil over the last few years, combined with the war in the Ukraine and the lasting impact of COVID-19 on the global supply chain, means that forecourt petrol prices have reached new levels.


But it’s not only your car that is more expensive to run due to rocketing energy costs. It’s predicted that the 20p per kilowatt hour (kWh) price that a typical SME manufacturer has used as its benchmark for negotiation over the last year or so will soon reach a shocking 60p per kWh. As a result, energy saving in manufacturing has never been more important; in fact, it’s no


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