• Courant d'air 🍃@jlai.lu
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    26 days ago

    Cruising in neutral doesn’t save gas at all, the engine still has to run so gas is injected. When cruising with a gear, the wheels make the engine run so it doesn’t need gas (not true for carburetors though if I’m not wrong)

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      26 days ago

      True, but living in a country where the majority of cars are still manual I can tell you that that myth still stands.

      We have electronic injection engines, you can stop with that neutral crap now.

      • Courant d'air 🍃@jlai.lu
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        26 days ago

        Yeah, plus even carburetors engines don’t burn more fuel being on a gear than on neutral so there’s literally never an advantage to do that.

        People should just remember that cruising in neutral is not good, period.