Garmin ecoRoute Configuration guide

ecoRoute™
owner’s manual supplement

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January 2009 Part Number 190-00955-03 Rev. A Printed in Taiwan

ecoRoute
™
Owner’s Manual Supplement 1
ecoRoute™
The ecoRoute feature calculates
your vehicle’s fuel economy, carbon
footprint, and fuel price of navigating
to a destination and offers tools for
improving fuel efciency.
The data provided by the ecoRoute
feature are estimates only. The data is
not actually read from your vehicle. To
receive more accurate fuel reports for
your specic vehicle and driving habits,
calibrate the fuel economy. See page 2.
Update Your nüvi
Update your nüvi 205 series or nüvi
705 series product to use the ecoRoute
feature.
1. Go to www.garmin.com/products
/webupdater, and download
WebUpdater to your computer.
2. Connect your nüvi to your computer
using the mini-USB cable.
3. Run WebUpdater, and follow the
on-screen instructions.
After conrming that you want to
perform an update, WebUpdater
automatically downloads the update and
installs it on your nüvi.
Set Up ecoRoute
The rst time you touch Tools >
ecoRoute, you will be asked to enter
fuel and mileage information about your
vehicle.

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Owner’s Manual Supplement
View the Fuel Report
If you have entered your vehicle prole
and the current fuel price, your nüvi
calculates your vehicle’s average fuel
economy, your carbon footprint, and the
cost of the fuel consumed.
To view the fuel report, touch Tools
> ecoRoute > Fuel Report. The fuel
consumption data is based on estimates
for speed and acceleration for an average
vehicle.
TIP: To ensure fuel data is always
recorded, keep your nüvi turned on
while driving.
Touch Reset to reset the data.
Calibrate the Fuel Economy
Calibrate the fuel economy to receive
more accurate fuel reports for your
specic vehicle and driving habits.
Calibrate when you ll up your fuel tank.
1. Calculate your miles per gallon or
liters per 100 kilometers.
2. Touch Calibrate.
3. Touch +and -to enter the result from
step 1.
4. Touch OK.

ecoRoute
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Owner’s Manual Supplement 3
Adjust the Fuel Price
Touch Tools > ecoRoute > Fuel Price
and enter the current fuel price. This
information is used to calculate the fuel
cost of routes and used to calculate the
fuel reports.
Take the Driving Challenge
The Driving Challenge tool helps you
maximize your fuel economy by scoring
your driving habits. The higher your
overall score for a Driving Challenge,
the more fuel you could save.
To take a Driving Challenge, touch Tools
> ecoRoute > Driving Challenge, then
touch Start.
Your overall score is the average of three
scores:
Acceleration score—gain points for
gradual acceleration; lose points for
rapid acceleration.
Deceleration score—gain points for
gradual braking; lose points for hard
braking.
Speed score—gain points for driving at
the best speed for conserving fuel, which
is 45–60 mph for most vehicles.
Touch on the Map page to view
details about your current challenge. The
leaf color on the driving challenge icon
changes depending on your performance
in the challenge.
When viewing the details, touch Stop >
Yes to stop the current challenge.
To reset your best scores, touch Reset.

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Owner’s Manual Supplement
Adjust Your Vehicle Prole
You will create a vehicle prole the rst
time you touch Tools > ecoRoute. To
adjust the vehicle prole, touch Tools >
ecoRoute > Vehicle Prole.
City Fuel Economy—enter your
vehicle’s average city fuel economy.
Highway Fuel Economy—enter your
vehicle’s average highway fuel economy.
TIP: For best results, calibrate your
fuel economy instead of adjusting the
city and highway fuel economy here.
Fuel Type—select a fuel type.
To reset your vehicle prole data, touch
Reset.
View Driving Tips
Your nüvi provides driving tips to help
you save fuel. Touch Tools > ecoRoute
> Tips.
View the Mileage Report
Mileage reports provide the distance, the
time, the average fuel economy, and the
fuel cost of navigating to a destination.
A mileage report is created for every
route that you drive. If you stop a route
on your nüvi, a mileage report is created
for the distance you traveled.
To access a mileage report, touch
Tools > ecoRoute > Mileage Report,
and select a report. You can view up
to 20 mileage reports on your nüvi.
You can also access mileage reports in
the Reports folder on your nüvi drive/
volume.
To reset the data, touch Reset.

ecoRoute
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Owner’s Manual Supplement 5
View the Estimated Cost
of a Route
If you have entered your vehicle prole
and fuel cost, the Go! page provides the
estimated cost of the route.
View the Overall Fuel
Cost
The Trip Computer also displays the
Overall Fuel Cost.
Calculate Routes that
Use Less Fuel
1. Touch Tools > Settings >
Navigation > Route Preference.
2. Select Less Fuel.
The Less Fuel route is calculated based
on speed limit and acceleration data.

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life of your Garmin products, visit the Garmin Web site at
www.garmin.com.
© 2009 Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries
Garmin International, Inc.
1200 East 151st Street, Olathe, Kansas 66062, USA
Garmin (Europe) Ltd.
Liberty House, Hounsdown Business Park, Southampton,
Hampshire, SO40 9RB, UK
Garmin Corporation
No. 68, Jangshu 2nd Road, Shijr, Taipei County, Taiwan
www.garmin.com
Part Number 190-00955-03 Rev. A