Geraldine Herbert

So if you can keep it like no sharp acceleration, no heavy braking, no sitting in the wrong gear, just driving smoothly.

And also, I mean, I remember the Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan at the time,

saying that if you knock down your speed to 100 kilometres on the motorway as opposed to 120, you could make substantial saving.

And he was being ridiculed at the time, but actually he was right.

You won't get there much slower.

And if you're on holidays, you're not in a rush anyway, but it will make a difference.

So those sort of things.

And the same applies whether you're driving petrol or diesel or electric.

You know, just keeping it steady, smooth makes a big difference.

Yeah, I mean, the ideal speed is about 100 kilometres of speed on motorways.

You will, and to be honest, if you look at Google Maps, right, and you average, it starts to know based on your speed, it'll predict how long you're going to get there.

If you drop down to 100 kilometres, you'll add about a minute or two, maybe three minutes to your journey, depending on how long you're going, but you won't add much more.

So you're not actually, it's not worth it to what it's doing, either to your fuel or to your EV range, if you're up at 120, when you could be just cruising at 100.

Yeah, money can disappear very, very quickly, you know, with a couple of coffees, a few hot chocolates, a few snacks.

And before you know it, 20 or 30 euros is gone.

If you're doing that even twice a day over a couple of days, it all adds up.

So if you can have a kind of basic food kit and again, I don't want this to sound like, you know, it's torture and you're not on holidays.

But just a few things, water bottles, like buying bottles of water in the supermarket is far cheaper than buying them in a service station.

A few snacks and stuff for a picnic is always a good idea.

So, I mean, the kind of things you want to save on is if you're staying in a B or a hotel is have a decent breakfast in the morning.