One of the most effective method to saving fuel is drive smoothly and do not brake suddenly. It is because when you have built your speed up what you have actually done is converted your fuel into kinetic energy and if you just let the car run by taking your car out of gear and taking your foot of the accelerator, the car would slow down due to the drag of air resistance, resistance from the powertrain and gears and from road resistance.
However if you brake you are definitely destroying this kinetic energy you have built up by increasing the total resistance through the brakes. In other words can be said that you are wasting that energy and wasting the fuel you have used to gain that energy.
In order to recover for this issue is that only brake as and when you must.
Now "not braking" is a pretty difficult skill to develop especially in the highway in the Malaysia. It's only human to jump on the brakes if you see something is happening in front of you for example bumper which always exist in the coaster road and think that you are going too fast. This "no braking" skill is in fact one of the key skills to getting better fuel consumption and will contribute more than most to saving you money, because there is no doubt that the most fuel efficient way of slowing down is to let the natural resistance to your progress do it for you.
Look ahead, do not guess what's going to happen so that application of your brakes isn't required. Let the natural rolling resistance ease off the speed by forecasting the need to reduce speed. Look ahead two or three cars, looking for other cars turning or slowing.
Drive smoothly and do not drive fast and maintain the gained speed up!I am sure that you can save quite a lot in your weekly fuels money. Let's try it.
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