Fuel Saving Tips: Drivers Urged to Use ‘Simple Ways’ to Save on Gas and Diesel Costs

In the first race, they paid special attention to fuel-saving techniques and then drove without using those methods for the second.

The findings showed that with some very straightforward and easy-to-adopt driving strategies, huge savings can be achieved.

In the first race, the CamperKing team posted an average fuel economy of 35.3 miles per gallon, but after the second race, this dropped significantly to 31.8.

The second run achieved an economy of 28.3 mpg over the 44-mile route, representing a drop in fuel economy of seven miles per gallon, or nearly 20 percent of economy, in just over an hour of driving.