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  • 96 Pages
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  • Paperback
  • Colour
  • Published in 2010
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The Efficient Driver's Handbook – Your guide to fuel efficient driving techniques and car choice
By Moss Dave

Features

• Save money and help the environment too!
• How to drive a car for best mpg and lowest emissions
• How to buy an economical and low emission car that still suits your needs
• Interpreting government fuel data (and other related info) to choose your eco-efficient car
• Why 4x4 vehicles have a bad reputation for eco-efficiency
• Interpretation of eco-related technical matters. eg: whats a DPF?
• Driving automatic gearbox vehicles in an economical/efficient way
• How to work out if you're becoming a more economical driver
• The pros and cons of hybrid vehicles and alternative fuels for the ordinary driver
• Future alternatives for powering tomorrows cars - advantages and disadvantages

Description

This book describes in a clear, friendly manner everything today’s driver needs to know about choosing and using a car in an economical and eco-efficient way.

Synopsis

This book describes in a clear, friendly manner everything today’s driver needs to know about choosing and using a car in an economical and eco-efficient way. It explains what matters most to the car buyer when optimum fuel economy and lowest emissions are priorities, and why four wheel drive and automatic transmission present challenges to eco-friendly driving.
Highly detailed advice on driving for best fuel economy is supplemented by helpful information on alternative fuels, hybrid powertrains, and much more. Featuring a thorough examination of the advantages and disadvantages of the most promising fuels of the future - electricity and hydrogen – this book is essential reading for the modern driver.
Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction

one: Choosing an efficient and economical car
Ground rules on fuel economy and exhaust emissions
Those government figures ...
Making the best choice for you
Petrol or diesel?
The 4x4 dilemma
Technical stuff
Diesel particulate filters – their importance and their workings
'Clean diesel' technology – for cars of the future

two: Driving for maximum efficiency
How to drive economically – and finding out how your search for economy is going
The basics ...
Planning ...
Starting ...
On the move ...
Stopping (as little as you can ...)
Anticipating ...
Too close, too fast ...?
The art of being gentle
The right gear– at the right time ...
Automatic considerations ...
Driving automatics economically
Turn off unwanted things – and save ...
Extra weight, extra drag, extra fuel – and extra pollution ...
Faster doesn't necessarily mean quicker – or sooner ...
Driving in today's world ...
How am I doing?
There's always a catch ...
The importance of a properly maintained car
Gadgets
Are all fuels the same?
Leaded fuel
Diesel
Making use of information
New opportunities to save fuel and reduce pollution: how technology can help economical driving
New developments – and the future
Searching your soul
The six-point plan

three: What are the alternatives?
In a nutshell ...
Alternative fuels – the options, and the pros and cons ...
Existing alternative fuels
Future alternative fuels
Other 'wild card' possibilities for alternative fuels
So, what of the alternatives?
The future: where do efficient drivers go from here?
End game

four: Appendix
Government information and advice on efficient driving and related taxation and legislation
Sharing a car
Manuals and handbooks
Motor industry information
Alternative fuels information
General advice

Index