INTRODUCTION
The aim of this writeup is to help ratchet up the increased fuel economy, and the almost non existent maintenance cost associated with hybrid cars.
Hybrid cars, are generally known to reduce emissions, increased fuel savings, and a proportional reduction in maintenance costs.

Several factors have being attributed to poor fuel economy, and increased maintenance costs on hybrid and conventional cars. Factors such as battery deterioration, faulty engine management systems, driver driving habits, and tyre capacity pressures are but a few.

Below are some of the ways you could improve your car's fuel economy, and reduce maintenance cost.

1. Tire inflation.
Inflating your car's tires to the proper tire pressures, is key to achieving a better fuel economy. Knowing the proper tire pressure inflation capacity can be checked from your car's manual, or on the driver door panel(its stamped on it); or the tire pressure can be found on the sidewall of the tire. Some auto makers, recommend using same tire pressures on the front and rear tires.
An uninflated tire, would cause the tires to wear and tear, at at faster rate. This process, contributes to excess fuel consumption, and subsequently, would lead to the replacement of such tires. Safety is also at stake here.

2. Unnecessary loads/weights.
Adding unnecessary weights on a car, would definitely impact negatively on the fuel economy of the car.
Most car owners are fun of carrying unnecessary loads in their cars, such as old replaced car parts, that aren't useful any longer. Drop all replaced spare parts at your garage, or sale them as scrap.

Place or balance weights equally in the car's booth(you're trying to maintain equilibrium, in order to save fuel cost).

Excessive loads, puts more load on the hybrid system, causing greater fuel consumption.

3. Aggressive driving.
Hybrid cars aren't meant for aggressive kind of driving. They are mild vehicles, made for mild driving, and not jackrabbit approach.
Driving aggressively, exerts sudden strain on the hybrid system.
Practice to accelerate slowly and smoothly.

4. Avoid continuous speeding up and slowing down.
Driving methods like that, wastes fuel.

5. Avoid unnecessary stopping and braking.
Try as much as possible to maintain a steady pace. That you can do, by timing the traffic signals so that you'll need to stop, as little as possible. Another way you could achieve this result is to look for alternative routes through streets, to avoid traffic lights, it gridlocks. Such driving pattern, would present prevent frequent braking, and this would reduce wear on the brakes.

6.Properly park the car.
When parking the car, ensure the transmission is in the P position, rather the N position. Allowing the car in the N position, even if the engine is running, the hybrid battery would be discharged, requiring that the hybrid battery would have to be running longer periods to recharge the battery.

7. Don't rest your foot on the brake pedal.
Resting your foot on the brake pedal, causes premature brake wear, overheating, and a poor fuel economy.

8. Avoid heavy traffics, if possible.

9. Maintain moderate speed on highways. Hybrids aren't driven like a conventional car, vis-à-vis heavy acceleration. The faster you drive the car, the greater the engine requests for more fuel consumption. By reducing your speed at a moderate speed, you'll cut down on fuel consumption.

10. Ensure the front wheels are in proper alignment.
Avoid entering potholes with speed. Slow down on potholes. Potholes, cause alignment problems, which in turn causes tires to wear faster, and also puts an extra load on the hybrid system, which correspondingly wastes fuel.

11. Ensure the Bottom of the car is free from mud. A mud free bottom, not only lessens weight, but also prevents corrosion.
Preventing corrosion is another benefits that saves you money on painting the car.

12. Adhere to preventive and scheduled maintenance regime.
If you want to increase fuel economy, and reduce maintenance costs, air filters, dirty spark plugs, improper valve clearance, brakes not adjusted, etc, should be given top priority. Managing replacement parts, would get you the desired fuel economy and maintenance cost reductions.


CONCLUSION
Achieving any of the targets above, and a lower operating costs, ensure all maintenance schedules are kept, and if you're driving in a severely dusty environment, see that your car receives more frequent maintenance checks and repair.




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Joseph
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@Gazzuzz. I think the range is from 170...200k(inverter); battery pack 200K+