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Eco-driving
Eco-driving is a range of everyday practices
that allow the motorist to optimise their fuel
consumption and CO
2 emissions.
Optimise the use of your gearbox
With a manual gearbox, move off gently
and change up without waiting. During
acceleration, change up early.
With an automatic gearbox, give preference
to automatic mode and avoid pressing the
accelerator pedal heavily or suddenly.
The gear efficiency indicator invites you to
engage the most suitable gear: as soon as the
indication is displayed in the instrument panel,
follow it straight away.
For vehicles fitted with an automatic gearbox,
this indicator appears only in manual mode.
Drive smoothly
Maintain a safe distance between vehicles,
use engine braking rather than the
brake pedal, and press the accelerator
progressively. These practices contribute
towards a reduction in fuel consumption and
CO
2 emissions and also help reduce the
background traffic noise.
If your vehicle has cruise control, make use of
the system at speeds above 25 mph (40 km/h)
when the traffic is flowing well.
Control the use of your electrical
equipment
Before moving off, if the passenger
compartment is too warm, ventilate it by
opening the windows and air vents before
using the air conditioning.
Above around 30 mph (50 km/h), close the
windows and leave the air vents open.
Consider using equipment that can help
keep the temperature in the passenger
compartment down (sunroof blind and window
blinds...).
Unless it has automatic regulation, switch off
the air conditioning as soon as the desired
temperature has been reached. Switch off the headlamps and front foglamps
when the ambient light level does not require
their use.
Avoid running the engine before moving off,
particularly in winter; your vehicle will warm up
much faster while driving. Switch off the demisting and defrosting
controls, if these are not automatically
managed.
Switch off the heated seat as soon as possible.
As a passenger, if you avoid connecting your
multimedia devices (film, music, video game
etc.), you will contribute towards limiting the
consumption of electrical energy, and so of
fuel.
Disconnect your portable devices before
leaving the vehicle.
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Vehicle
or Activate, deactivate or configure
certain vehicle functions.
Voice commands
Steering mounted controls
Pressing this button activates the
voice commands function.
To ensure that voice commands are
always recognised by the system, please
observe the following recommendations:
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peak in a normal tone without
breaking up words or raising your
voice.
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lways wait for the "beep" (audible
signal) before speaking.
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or best operation, it is recommended
that the windows and sunroof
be closed to avoid extraneous
interference (according to version),
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efore making a voice command, ask
other passengers to not speak.
First steps
Example of a "voice command" for
navigation:
"Navigate to address 11 Regent
Street, London" .
Example of a "voice command" for
the radio and media:
"Play ar tist Madonna" .
Example of a "voice command" for
the telephone:
"Call David Miller" .
The voice commands, with a choice of
12 languages (English, French, Italian,
Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese,
Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic,
Brazilian), are made using the language
previously chosen and set in the system.
For some voice commands, there are
alternative synonyms.
Example: Guide to/Navigate to/Go to/...
The voice commands in Arabic for:
"Navigate to address" and "Display POI in
the city", are not available.
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