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The most boring and bizarre ways to improve fuel efficiency
Fuel has to be one of the least exciting things to pay for with your hard-earned money. Luckily, there are a number of ways to improve fuel efficiency that can help minimise your visits to the servo.
These fuel efficiency methods range from the simple and dull to the genuinely bizarre – so let’s look at the most unusual ones first.
Hypermiling and the extreme end of optimising fuel efficiency
Hypermiling is a driving style that sees drivers doing just about anything they can to improve fuel efficiency. It began in the early 2000s after a spike in fuel prices, but the premise remains the same: cut down on energy loss to optimise your vehicle’s use of fuel.
Is it an Americanised term? Sure – but you have to admit hyperkilometre-ers is a mouthful.
Now, many hypermilers are all about making small and sensible changes to the way they drive and maintain their cars, which we’ll get to in a moment. But at the extreme end, some hypermilers cop flack for taking part in dangerous and downright illegal behaviour. We’re talking things like coasting along in neutral, driving on road markings, carrying out extensive car mods, stripping out airbags to remove weight, and driving in the slipstream of larger vehicles in a practice known as drafting.
Surely there have to be safer ways than tailgating a truck? Absolutely, so let’s look at them.
Smarter (and slightly dull) ways to improve fuel efficiency
They might not raise your heart rate or risk you copping a fine, but these tried-and-tested tips are known to improve fuel efficiency and can be some of the best ways to make a difference to your fuel costs and .
