ECO driving is a driving technique which reduces fuel consumption by up to 15%. It also reduces wear and tear on the engine, brakes and tyres. In other words, a simple and profitable way of caring for the environment.
ECO driving means driving softly and anticipating the traffic
It is continuously reading the traffic and the road and making use of the engine's qualities in the best way. The method means maintaining your distance and the speed limit permissible so that you can plan your driving and thereby avoid heavy braking and unnecessary acceleration. It's important to drive as smoothly and as gently as possible – every time you change speed or RPM, you use more fuel. It is therefore important to minimise the use of the engine's maximum speed, which requires considerably more fuel. And to learn how to make the engine use fuel energy most efficiently.
Final gear with low engine speed
How the driver uses the gearbox, also has an effect on fuel consumption. For example accelerating quickly to cruising speed by making use of high revs in low gears and missing one or two gears. An ECO driver always switches off the cruise control when driving over undulating stretches of road. It provides him with the possibility of accelerating when approaching a hill and therefore avoiding the need to change down. Being guided by the tachometer when driving and not listening to the sound of the engine, the ECO driver does not have to change down as soon as the engine starts to loose speed. The engine's torque can be made use of at low engine speeds where the power is available. Every time you change gear there is an energy loss.