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MAN: G'day, I submitted a story to the LivingGreener website about driving efficiently which doesn't
explain why we're in a kitchen, but one of the things that I do is I drive as though
I've got an egg underneath my foot on the accelerator, but today we're going to try
something that you shouldn't try at home, we're going to actually put an egg on the accelerator.
Now this is a real egg, it has not been hard-boiled and this is not my wife's car.0:00:25.810 ,0:00:31.640 There's a number of little things that you can do to make a big difference, don't worry about warming up your engine before you drive it,
unless you're driving a V8 Supercar or a Formula 1.
Get rid of excessweight out of the boot.
Anything that's excess there is going to be causing a lower efficiency in fuel.
If you have a roof rack, if you're not using it make sure that you store it,
these things if they're still kept on the car when you're driving around will cause a lot of drag.
[Sound of car starting up and engine running.] Make sure that your tyres are correctly
inflated, if they're not correctly inflated they'll cause drag and that'll be lower
fuel efficiency for you. The harder you accelerate the more fuel
you're going to use. It doesn't matter whether you're in the city or in the country
at traffic lights, at a roundabout, the faster that you take off from a standing start, the
more it's going to cost you on wear-and-tearv on your car, the more fuel you're going
to use and the more it's going to end up costing you money. You want to try and make
sure you're servicing your car regularly - a well-serviced car will be more efficient.
We're currently sitting on 80 kays an hour in an 80 kay zone, three kays down,
egg still intact. If your foot's jumping straight from
the accelerator to the brake, than chances are you're going to be wasting a lot of fuel.
If you look ahead to see the car in front, when it slows down take your foot off
the accelerator, then you won't have to break for anywhere near as long and you might
even find as you come up towards the lights, that you don't come to a complete stop at all.
About four kays in the egg did break, however it didn't break on take-off and
that was a bumpy bit of road, glad we used this plastic bag!
So we wasted an egg, but we saved a lot of fuel, we saved a lot of carbon emissions
and we saved a lot of money and over the years you can put that money - as we did - towards
insulation, double-glazing in this case on our home.