Green Living - Fuel Efficient Car Facts & Tips For Green Driving

With the cost of gasoline skyrocketing - now averaging over $4 per gallon, up an entire dollar from just one year ago - fuel economy is tops most consumers' minds. Sales of hybrid and other fuel efficient cars are booming. Of course, it's not just about fuel economy - it's also about the environmental impact, too.

In fact, the most polluting daily activity by U.S. consumers is driving. And improving fuel economy by just 5 miles per gallon would save Americans 1.5 million barrels of oil per day.

To improve your green living efforts and reduce your impact on the environment, follow these simple tips to increase your fuel efficiency.

Tips to Increase Fuel Efficiency


Avoid Excessive Idling: Allowing your car to idle for long periods of time, like while you're waiting for someone or warming up your vehicle during the cold winter months, not only wastes fuel, but also reduces the overall lifespan of your vehicle.
Perform Regular Vehicle Maintenance: Keeping your engine properly tuned can improve your gas mileage by as much as 4%, according to FuelEconomy.gov. Not to mention that fixing faulty oxygen sensors can increase fuel efficiency by as much as 40%. Other fuel-saving vehicle maintenance includes:

Regularly checking and replacing your air filter can increase fuel efficiency by 10%.
Maintaining proper tire pressure and alignment is not only safer, but also it can increase fuel efficiency by 3.3%.
Using right motor oil - the type recommended by the manufacturer - can increase fuel efficiency by 1%.

Slow Down the Road: Take you can quickly reach their destination faster, but it is terrible for fuel consumption. For example, you can be about 2% of the loss of gas mileage for every mile per hour for 55 years. And, in addition to reducing the overall mpg, resulting in a quick pay its tires more quickly the heat generated during driving pretty fast acceleration and top speeds.Drivebrakes is not only hard on your vehicle, are bad for energy efficiency. Driving without problems for passengers will be happier - and continues to about 2 miles per gallon. I remember, like the tortoise and the hare, slow and steady win the combustible waste race.Remove trunk: Another way to increase fuel efficiency is to travel light. For every 50 € to drive around, lost 0.25 miles per gallon. Remove items that do not require that you enter in the car before getting the shuttle every dayand you'll save a little bit of money - and every little bit helps!Plan Your Errands: Whenever possible, combine your errands and plan your route in advance, so you do less driving. You may not increase your fuel efficiency, but you'll reduce the environmental impact by using less gas.

Fuel Efficient Cars

In addition to following these tips for increasing fuel efficiency, you can always buy a car that gets good gas mileage. In addition to hybrids, electric cars and other automobiles that run on alternative fuels, there are plenty of gasoline cars that average 30 mpg or more.

According to FuelEconomy.gov, the top fuel efficient cars for 2008 are:

1) Toyota Prius (48 mpg city / 45 mpg highway)

2) Honda Civic Hybrid (40 mpg city / 45 mpg highway)

3) Toyota Corolla (28 mpg city / 37 mpg highway)

4) Toyota Yaris (29 mpg city / 45 mpg highway)*

5) MINI Cooper (26 mpg city / 35 mpg highway)*

6) Smart fortwo Convertible (33 mpg city / 41 highway mpg)

7) Ford Escape Hybrid FWD (34 mpg city / 30 highway mpg)

8) Mazda Tribute 2WD (34 mpg city / 30 highway mpg)

9) Mercury Mariner Hybrid FWD (34 mpg city / 30 highway mpg)

* Gas Mileage is calculated on the basis of an automatic transmission. Gas mileage on models with manual transmission is generally higher.

Green Living beyond the fuel consumption of cars

Remember, eco-driving is more than the price of fuelEffectiveness. Before you send a car to get his green lifestyle, even taking into account the overall impact on the environment during construction and drive your car creates.

For example, the Prius, some of the highest levels of fuel economy. However, nickel is used to produce the battery in the Prius. Environmental damage caused by mining, which involves the transport of nickel for the Prius a building amazing statistic: construction and drives a Prius causes more environmental damage caused by Totalbattery that uses nickel for the construction of a Hummer, which is on the road three times longer.

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