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ECO-DRIVING
Eco-driving is a range of everyday practices that allow the motorist to optimise their fuel consumption and CO2emis-sions.
Optimise the use of your gearbox
With a manual gearbox, move off gen-tly, change up without waiting and drive by changing up quite soon. If your vehicle has the system, the gear shift indicator invites you to change up; it is displayed in the instrument panel, follow its instructions.
With an automatic or electronic gearbox, stay in Drive "D"
or Auto "A", according to the type of gearbox, without pressing the accelerator pedal heavily or sud-denly.
Drive smoothly
Maintain a safe distance between ve-hicles, use engine braking rather than the brake pedal, and press the accel-erator progressively. These practices contribute towards a reduction in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions and also helps reduce the background traf-22
fi c noise.
If your vehicle has cruise control, make use of the system at speeds above 25 mph (40 km/h) when the traffi c is fl owing well.
Control the use of your electrical equipment
Before moving off, if the passenger compartment is too warm, ventilate itby opening the windows and air ventsbefore using the air conditioning.
Above 30 mph (50 km/h), close thewindows and leave the air ventsopen.
Remember to make use of equipmentthat can help keep the temperaturein the passenger compartment down(sun roof and window blinds...).
Switch off the air conditioning, unlessit has automatic digital regulation, assoon as the desired temperature is at-tained.
Switch off the demisting and defrost-ing controls, if not automatic.
Switch off the heated seat as soon aspossible.
Switch off the headlamps and frontfoglamps when the level of light doesnot require their use.
Avoid running the engine before mov-ing off, particularly in winter; your ve-hicle will warm up much faster whiledriving.
As a passenger, if you avoid connect-ing your multimedia devices (fi lm, mu-sic, video game...), you will contributetowards limiting the consumption of electrical energy, and so of fuel.
Disconnect your portable devices be-fore leaving the vehicle.
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INSTRUMENT PANEL
Panel grouping together the dials and
warning/indicator lamps. These inform
the driver of the activation/deactivation
of a system or of the occurrence of a
fault.
3.
Instrument panel screen:
- Warning and status displays.
- Total and trip distance recorders.
- Service indicator.
- Coolant temperature.
- Trip computer information.
- Cruise control setting.
- Dashboard lighting and parameter
settings.
- Fuel level.
- Ambient temperature.
- Transmission mode.
Screen type 1
Screen type 2
1.
Rev counter.
2.
Speedometer.
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MONITORING
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When the vehicle is
stationary
, it allows
the user to change the
following settings:
- resetting average fuel
consumption and av-
erage speed,
- the fuel consumption units,
- the temperature display units,
- the display language,
- activation/deactivation of the INFO
button sound,
- the break (rest) reminder display in-
terval,
- restore factory settings.
SETTING MENU
System which provides access to the
settings of certain functions.
To change the settings, you
must stop the vehicle and switch
on the ignition.
Apply the parking brake and place
the gear lever in neutral.
When the vehicle is moving
, the
setting menu screen is not displayed
when you press the INFO
button.
The various menus may differ for the
type 1 instrument panel and the type 2
instrument panel.
With the ignition on
, press the INFO
button on the dashboard, to the right of
the instrument panel, several times in
succession until the "SETTING MENU"
screen is displayed.
Operation
)
press and hold the INFO
button for
a few seconds to display the menu
screen.
Press and hold the INFO
button
for a few seconds to return to the
previous screen.
When the menus screen is
displayed, if no operation is carried
out within 15 seconds, the setting
menu screen is displayed.
)
on the menu screen, press the INFO
button to select a function from the
list:
MENU
2/3:
- a/b
(option of displaying a different
language in the instrument panel
screen and the navigation screen),
- activation/deactivation of the
INFO
button sound
,
- ALARM
(changing the "BREAK RE-
MINDER" display interval),
- choice of the direction indicators
sound,
- activation/deactivation of current
fuel consumption,
MENU
1/3
:
- 1 - 2
(options for resetting aver-
age fuel consumption and average
speed),
- UNIT
(choice of the fuel consump-
tion units),
- choice of the temperature display
unit
s
,
- LANGUAGE
(choice of display lan-
guage),
MENU 3/3:
- RESET
(restore factory settings).