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Originally Posted by strat61caster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-...ing_or_gliding
The technology has been around for at least 20 years. You bet your ass the fuel injectors stop injecting fuel when coasting in gear, or at least a significantly reducedamount.
Here's a paper from 2009 where the abstract talks about how (5 years ago) modern vehicles use almost zero fuel whilst coasting:
http://papers.sae.org/2009-01-0416/
I tried to find the original paper proving fuel shutoff was possible and beneficial but no luck.
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"Significantly reduced" and "almost" are not equivalent to Zero, Zilch, Nada, NO FUEL WHATSOEVER.
This is my only point. There is some amount of fuel being used while coasting in gear, regardless of how little.