Fuel Saver Strategy #5
Always consolidate your daily trips and errands. Sounds obvious isn't it? But ever so often we are guilty of making that 4th trip to the same grocery store in a week. Consolidate your trips, rearrange your schedules and you'll find that you could actually have more time on your hands to be more productive than just spending more time in your car. So at the end of the day you save time and you're a fuel saver!
I realized that in the process of being a fuel saver, I am saving more than just fuel. Looking back at the previous strategy (#3), being a fuel saver has many side benefits. It can help save on maintenance costs, your life, the earth and now your time. Ain't it great?
Showing posts with label habit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label habit. Show all posts
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Simple Fuel Saver Strategies
Fuel Saver Strategy #4
Avoid stop and go traffic by taking alternative routes or less congested travel paths. This is a great fuel saver. Traveling the shorter route is usually the best way for fuel savers, but it doesn't apply when your shortest route experiences heavy traffic. In fact, the longer but smoother route may just prove to be a better fuel saver!
When driving in the city, nearly 50% of the energy used to power the vehicle is for acceleration and unnecessary braking wastes that energy, thus going into anti-fuel saver mode. Also, accelerating quickly causes the engine to enter a less efficient fuel enrichment mode whereby additional fuel is delivered to increase the rate of acceleration. In most cases, this is overkill since a lot more fuel than required is actually being delivered. Highly anti-fuel saver.
With gas prices at all time highs, avoiding congested routes and even having to pay highway tolls may just be still a better alternative than taking that short but congested anti-fuel saver route.
This way you'll have a more enjoyable drive, better state of mind when you arrive at your destination, avoid bumper to bumper traffic that ever so often result in accidents and be a fuel saver at the same time.
Avoid stop and go traffic by taking alternative routes or less congested travel paths. This is a great fuel saver. Traveling the shorter route is usually the best way for fuel savers, but it doesn't apply when your shortest route experiences heavy traffic. In fact, the longer but smoother route may just prove to be a better fuel saver!
When driving in the city, nearly 50% of the energy used to power the vehicle is for acceleration and unnecessary braking wastes that energy, thus going into anti-fuel saver mode. Also, accelerating quickly causes the engine to enter a less efficient fuel enrichment mode whereby additional fuel is delivered to increase the rate of acceleration. In most cases, this is overkill since a lot more fuel than required is actually being delivered. Highly anti-fuel saver.
With gas prices at all time highs, avoiding congested routes and even having to pay highway tolls may just be still a better alternative than taking that short but congested anti-fuel saver route.
This way you'll have a more enjoyable drive, better state of mind when you arrive at your destination, avoid bumper to bumper traffic that ever so often result in accidents and be a fuel saver at the same time.
Simple Fuel Saver Strategies
Fuel Saver Strategy #3
Not tailgating the car in front. This is a fuel saver strategy that can improve gas mileage by five to 10%. This driving strategy is not only safer, but it will also reduce wear on the tires and brakes.
So not only you save fuel, you save on car maintenance and save your life. Best of all, at the end of the day you save the earth!
Not tailgating the car in front. This is a fuel saver strategy that can improve gas mileage by five to 10%. This driving strategy is not only safer, but it will also reduce wear on the tires and brakes.
So not only you save fuel, you save on car maintenance and save your life. Best of all, at the end of the day you save the earth!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Simple Fuel Saver Strategies
Fuel Saver Strategy #2
My next fuel saver strategy is to anticipate traffic conditions ahead of me. By so doing I avoid having poured on the gas only to have to jam my brakes to stop at a traffic light or lose my momentum behind a slow moving lane. This fuel saver strategy requires your mind to be active in looking out for traffic in front of you and avoiding them or making decision to slow down instead of pressing harder on the accelerator.
For example, the fuel saver habit in me, having seen that the traffic light 200 meters in front of me is red and cars are stopped behind it, it would be highly unlikely that I would be able to continue driving at the speed that I was doing. So I would release the accelerator pedal and let the car cruise. If before I reach the traffic light, it turns green, then I take advantage of the momentum still available to gradually pick up speed again.
The anti-fuel saver in me, in such a situation, instead would have had continued to press on the accelerator and reached the traffic light earlier, thus had to stop. Seconds later, the light turns green and I would have had to waste more gas by overcoming the inertia of the car, having no momentum to ride on. It's much like riding the wave.
The worst are anti-fuel saver habits that seeing a red light in front accelerates further and jams brake upon reaching it. If you're guilty of such a habit, it's time to change and cultivate new fuel saver habits.
My next fuel saver strategy is to anticipate traffic conditions ahead of me. By so doing I avoid having poured on the gas only to have to jam my brakes to stop at a traffic light or lose my momentum behind a slow moving lane. This fuel saver strategy requires your mind to be active in looking out for traffic in front of you and avoiding them or making decision to slow down instead of pressing harder on the accelerator.
For example, the fuel saver habit in me, having seen that the traffic light 200 meters in front of me is red and cars are stopped behind it, it would be highly unlikely that I would be able to continue driving at the speed that I was doing. So I would release the accelerator pedal and let the car cruise. If before I reach the traffic light, it turns green, then I take advantage of the momentum still available to gradually pick up speed again.
The anti-fuel saver in me, in such a situation, instead would have had continued to press on the accelerator and reached the traffic light earlier, thus had to stop. Seconds later, the light turns green and I would have had to waste more gas by overcoming the inertia of the car, having no momentum to ride on. It's much like riding the wave.
The worst are anti-fuel saver habits that seeing a red light in front accelerates further and jams brake upon reaching it. If you're guilty of such a habit, it's time to change and cultivate new fuel saver habits.
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