Saving a few liters of fuel per hundred kilometers for each car is easier than it might seem. Just follow a few rules, and the result will come.
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We are certainly not the only ones wondering these days and weeks whether it is possible to save a little more of that (incredibly expensive) fuel without necessarily buying a new car, believe the consumption of 1.1 lu plug-in hybrids or subscribe to tesle and make my car a perpetuum mobile. And that its operation really costs nothing. No, we don’t want or can’t do any of this right now. All we have is our average car with average consumption. Here’s how to turn average consumption into excellent consumption.
5 tips for saving fuel in every situation
Tip # 1: Lighten the car
The truth repeated a hundred times is perhaps so well known that everyone must observe it. It is not and does not comply. The extra kilos we take with us unnecessarily cost us decilitres and liters of fuel in the final. For sinful money. So discuss everything you take with you and what you may miss. And if it works, put it in a different place than a moving vehicle, the operation of which is not one of the cheapest. The same, of course, applies to all bike racks, transport boxes, etc. – as soon as we don’t need them every day, get away with them.
Tip # 2: Check the tires
Tires are quite important for eco-driving, yet today and every day we see cars with “balloons”, slowly ripe to take off the rims. As tire pressure decreases, rolling resistance increases, which we will feel, among other things, on the wallet. Both in terms of consumption and faster wear of the tires and thus shorter service life. Why change the whole set unnecessarily sooner? Not to mention the deterioration of the car’s handling and thus the reduction in safety that comes with underinflation. Illogical.
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Tip # 3: Anticipate, shift in a timely manner and with forethought
At least a basic estimate of what can happen in the next seconds and minutes should be available to every road user, whether they want to save fuel or not. But if one of your goals is to really save, try switching to “I’m looking a little further and thinking a little more” mode. Suddenly you find out how much gas can be saved if we know that we will be able to reach the next junction or turn off the main road with the existing kinetic energy. Day after day, month after month… It accumulates.
Tip # 4: Turn off the engine
Although we are opposed to a mandatory (and above all non-switchable) stop-start system, eliminating engine idling is one of the most important factors for saving fuel. And we don’t just mean turning off on every “light”. But even while waiting for someone in front of the house, while waiting in a convoy on the highway, anywhere. Just look at the on-board computer and the current consumption at idle, and it is clear to everyone what such a state can do in an hour. Stokorunny thrown out of the window. Not to mention ecology.
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Tip # 5 Don’t rush unnecessarily
One of the most common reasons why we can’t wait at the pump to wonder what the staff wants from us for the sheer money. He wants, and will want more, if we don’t lose weight. That aerodynamic drag increases from a certain speed not linearly, but exponentially almost every small child knows this, but few can imagine it in practice. So let’s try it this way: between 90 and 130 km / h the difference is about 1/4. But the air resistance will be double at 130 km / h compared to 90 km / h. And similarly, more money will flow out to overcome that resistance. Is it easier to understand?
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But let’s leave the hours of practical physics or mentoring of the teacher behind the department. The truth is that above all “economizers”, on-board computers and reassignment advisers, there will always be the most valuable combinations: your head, your mind and, last but not least, your right foot. By combining these three things and putting them into practice, you can save more than you ever thought possible. Try it, start tomorrow, step by step. It will work, and your wallet will appreciate it. And you even more. Fingers crossed!
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