Buying green is the first step!

Buying a green car is the first step you can do, to support the fight against global warming. But to drive, you should read a couple of usefull tips we found on the Internet.

Thanks to the website of greenercars, here a nice list of tips which are very usefull to drive clean.
Off course this is also usefull for Hybrid cars, hydrogen cars or other type of cars like bio-diesels or even regular gasoline cars.

Driving green

Buying green is just the first step in reducing the environmental impacts of automobile use. Your choice of vehicle is most important, but how you drive and how well you maintain your car, van, or light truck will also make a difference.

1. Avoid “jack rabbit” starts and aggressive driving. Flooring the gas pedal not only wastes gas, it leads to drastically higher pollution rates. One second of high-powered driving can produce nearly the same volume of carbon monoxide emissions as a half hour of normal driving.
2. Think ahead. Try to anticipate stops and let your vehicle coast down as much as possible. Avoid the increased pollution, wasted gas, and wear on your brakes created by accelerating hard and braking hard.
3. Follow the speed limit! Driving 75 mph instead of 65 mph will lower your fuel economy by about 10 percent, and can dramatically increase tailpipe pollution in many vehicles.
4. When possible, plan your trips to avoid rush hour. Stop-and-go driving burns gas and increases emissions of smog-forming pollutants.
5. Combine trips. Warmed-up engines and catalysts generate much less air pollution, so combining several short trips into one can make a big difference.
6. Take a load off. Carrying around an extra 100 pounds reduces fuel economy by about 1 percent. Take a few moments to unload your cargo area.
7. If your vehicle has it, use overdrive gear at cruising speeds. When driving a manual transmission, shift up as soon as possible. Running in a higher gear decreases the rpm and will decrease fuel use and engine wear.
8. Try using the vents and opening windows to cool off before you turn on the air conditioner. Air conditioner use increases fuel consumption, increases NOx emissions in some vehicles, and involves environmentally damaging fluids.
9. Unlike many older cars and trucks, modern vehicles don’t need to warm up and they have automatic chokes, so you don’t need to step on the gas pedal before starting the engine.

Prudent Parking

Park in the shade in summer to keep your car cool and minimize evaporation of fuel.

If you have to park outdoors, windshield shades can cut down on summer heat and help keep the frost off in the winter.

If you have a garage, use it as much as possible to keep your car warm in winter and cool in summer.

More info about all of this, can be found on this great website of greenercars.org.

To get your vehicle parked without any scraches, you can always use parking sounds / sensors to park your vehicle safely And so you can see on their website, this could be very usefull.

To get back to the CNG (compressed natural gas) cars you should get good insurance for you car, because these cars are not so commen, and people might steal this car from you.