Maximizing Fuel Efficiency in Your Porsche: Driving Tips
Modern Porsche models are more efficient than ever before. You’ll boost your gas mileage even further with these Porsche fuel efficiency tips, which could save you plenty of money at the gas pump.
Maximizing Fuel Efficiency in Your Porsche: 8 Driving Tips
Use Coasting to Slow Down
When approaching traffic or a stop light, take your foot off the gas in advance and allow coasting to slow you down. This economic style of driving conserves fuel and also reduces wear on the brakes.
Adopt Anticipatory Driving
Try to anticipate in advance what’s coming on the road ahead. This will make your driving smoother, calmer, and more efficient. You’ll be less reactive and find it easier to save gas and use coasting.
Use InnoDrive With Cruise Control
If you don’t yet have adaptive cruise control and InnoDrive, consider installing these fantastic features, and then put them to good use. Working together, these systems take over steering, shifting, acceleration, and braking, driving your car with superb fuel efficiency. InnoDrive accesses real-time navigation data and adapts perfectly to upcoming changes in road conditions, which further improves gas mileage.
Avoid Traffic With Careful Planning
Idling in stop-and-go traffic burns up far more fuel than smooth highway cruising. It’s therefore wise to plan your routes to avoid traffic as much as possible.
Use One Trip for Several Errands
It’s also more fuel efficient to drive a little less and avoid regular short trips of under five miles. If you have a few errands to run, try to combine them into one lengthier drive.
Under 45 Mph, Open the Windows
At speeds below 45 mph, the AC works less efficiently. If you need to cool your cabin, it’s generally a better idea to open the windows instead.
Turn on the AC Over 45 Mph
At speeds over 45 mph, open windows create too much wind drag, which lessens fuel efficiency. The AC’s power draw is also less intense at higher speeds, so close your windows and switch on the air-con to cool your car.
Keep Your Tires Properly Inflated
It’s important to check your tire pressure monthly and before longer drives. Even slightly under-inflated tires generate excess rolling resistance, which lowers fuel efficiency. According to the Department of Transportation, insufficiently inflated tires waste five million gallons of gas every day in the US.
Put These Porsche Fuel Efficiency Tips into Action
Just one of these tips could noticeably enhance your car’s gas mileage. Imagine the cumulative impact of all eight strategies put into practice.
Of course, one of the very best things you can do for your car’s efficiency is to keep up with preventative maintenance. When the engine, transmission, and other drivetrain parts are fault-free and well-kept, your fuel is being used optimally.
Visit Porsche Warwick in Warwick, RI, to fine-tune your Porsche and learn more about saving gas. We’ll keep your elite vehicle in peak condition and performance.