“25% less fuel”: how eco-driving can save you more than 1,000 euros per year

This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the report above. Click on the video to watch it in full. A somewhat special driving lesson.

Colin Briot is not a driving school instructor, and his student, Mathieu Éparvier, has had his license for a long time. He is in fact training in eco-driving, a way of adopting more economical reflexes in the car, he who travels 50,000 kilometers a year. “I go from point A to point B, without asking too many questions.

That's why I really come with the aim of taking a little of everything there is to take, the little everyday tips", explains the professional video analyst. Thanks to specific software, the monitor measures its consumption in real time. "All of this, in fact, will be used by me, therefore, to analyze its driving and then, precisely, try to look at where we can improve for journey 2", he explains.

After a first test route, the trainer gives his tips: anticipation, using the brakes to the strict minimum, or even inertia. So much advice which allows, in the end, to obtain a more than satisfactory result. “You go from 4.6 liters to 3.5 liters.

There, there is starting to be a nice difference. That's almost 25% less fuel consumption", assures Colin Briot to his student. More than 100 km more with a single tank Less energy-consuming driving for the same route and in the same time.

Reflexes that would allow young workers to save more than 1,000 euros per year. "It's two, three little tips that we apply and, in fact, which have big repercussions behind. We don't realize it on a daily basis, but in fact, in the long run, when we do this simulation, with the price of fuel today, the number of kilometers we do per year, in fact, it has big impacts on the wallet", slips Mathieu Éparvier. Like him, more and more motorists are attracted by eco-driving, keen to lower their fuel bill.

Jérémy Chaouat was trained a year and a half ago through his company. From now on, every time he uses his car, he puts the acquired skills into practice. “You see that there, the light is red opposite, you deduce that it will turn green, you do not stop completely, you try to always keep this force of inertia to be able to start again with a little momentum”, he summarizes.

While prices at the pump have soared recently, he has been able to save money thanks to fewer stops at the station. “Usually, I did more like 500 to 600 km with a full tank, now I do more than 700, so we have more than 100 km more with a single tank. And I went to the pump every week, now I go there about every week and a half,” says the salesman.

Beyond training in eco-driving to consume less, specialists recommend, for example, reducing your speed on the motorway or limiting the use of air conditioning.

Machine-translated from French