Money Saving - How to save fuel while driving

Here are some of our helpful tips on how to save money on you fuel bills:

Keep your vehicle well maintained:

Keeping your vehicle regualry maintained is key to enhancing your fuel efficencey. Making sure your tyres are inflated to the correct pressures, as underinflated tryes can increase fuel consumption.

Be sure to check your tyre pressures against the manufacturers recommendation. If they are underinflated they will be creating extra rolling resistance and therefore drag, and that means increased fuel consumption.

Drive smoothly and calmly

Aggressive driving habbits, such as rapid acceleration, hard braking can significantley reduce your fuel efficiency. Adapting the way you drive is perhaps one of the most impactful things you can do to make your fuel go further. Try to anticipate traffic flow, read junctions, traffic lights and roundabouts better as you’re approaching them so you can glide out in a gap instead of having to come to a complete halt, and just generally take more care in the car.

Optimising your air conditioning

If you’re in an electric car and you turn on the climate control, you’ll notice the vehicle’s overall range suddenly drops by quite a few miles in the instrument display. Well, the same is true to an extent of petrol and diesel cars. This is because, in internal-combustion vehicles, anything which places an electrical drain on the car’s alternator will increase its fuel consumption – so don’t have the air con needlessly functioning if you’re comfortable in the cabin and you don’t need it.