The Right Way to Warm Up
You can improve fuel efficiency in the first ten minutes of driving your car.
Warming up Idly
On a chilly morning, idling your car to warm it up may seem the right thing to do. However, this is not an effective way to warm up your car. You are using extra gas, releasing pollutants in the air and even harming your engine with this practice.
Instead, try idling for only 30 seconds, then warming up your car with smoother and slower driving until your temperature gauge is on the rise.
Wait on that Heat!
The heat in your car comes from air flowing over a warm engine. If your car's engine is cold, demanding heat is taxing on your engine and on your gas tank. The engine will burn more gas in order to produce this heat. If you wait 10 minutes or so until the engine is warmed up, you can have heat more efficiently. Doesn't that feel better?
