Fuel Savings Tips

To All Crown and Manual Taxi Driver:

By the laws of physics, shifting to higher gear earier does not equate to saving fuel. There is such things as engine optimal range and by not driving within the engine optimium range means that the engine is not efficient = consume more fuel.

Put it this way, when you shift to a higher gear too early, your engine got no power to pick up speed, therefore it will accelerate slowly and when you find that your vehicle is not moving, you press more on the accelerator. More fuel goes through causing in increase in FC.

And if you have not noticed, passengers do feel uncomfortable with the vibration and shaking caused by the lack of power.

Also, please also eliminate the mentality that when you put to neutral before the traffic light, you save fuel. Some automatic cabs drivers are also guilty of this too.

Again by the law of physics, when you are in gear and braking, the engine uses the movement energy from the wheels to power the engine and therefore a modern engine like that one found in all cabs now consume absolutely no fuel at all. On the other hand, if you put neutral miles before the traffic light, the engine actually uses a bit of fuel to keep itself from stalling. Not a lot but it all adds up,