For many people one of the biggest pulls on their finances is the cost of the fuel they put in their cars each week. Aside from buying a house, if you can afford to that is, owning a car is the next most expensive thing in our everyday lives. If you could make a significant reduction in your weekly motoring expenses just think what that money could be put towards instead. So here are 3 very simple ways that you can incorporate into your driving to drive down the costs (terrible pun, sorry):
- Accelerate smoothly when you start off - it might feel good to zoom away from the lights but that burns up a huge amount of fuel
- Maintain constant speed on long journeys - whenever possible just keep your speed more or less the same on longer journeys, speeding up and slowing down reduces fuel efficiency
- Avoid hard breaking - if you can that is, again this will cause rapid deceleration which will mean you will have to accelerate again to get back up to speed - requires more forethought when driving
These 3 things alone are so obvious and make a huge difference in fuel efficiency, not to mention wear and tear on tyres and the engine.
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