Patent ID: 8576057

Claim:
A fuel consumption saving drive supporting device which informs a driver of advice based on an increase or a decrease of a calculated mileage, comprising: a detector configured to detect vehicle information related to a drive operation or a drive condition of a vehicle; a mileage calculating section configured to calculate a mileage based on the vehicle information and store a history of mileage information on a driver basis and on a drive condition basis; a drive evaluating section configured to compare past mileage information recorded at every predetermined time with the current mileage information of the driver, extract the drive operation or the drive condition of the vehicle which leads to a mileage variation, and inform a driver of advice according to the extracted drive operation or drive condition; wherein if a first advice is informed to the driver due to a deterioration of the mileage, the drive operation and the mileage information related to the deterioration of the mileage are stored; and if the driver operation which induced informing the driver of the first advice is not detected within a predetermined time after the mileage information related to the deterioration of the mileage is detected, the drive evaluating section informs the driver of a second advice which expressly indicates that the driver operation that induced the informing of the first advice, is no longer detected, wherein the second advice is configured to expressly identify the driver operation that induced the informing of the first advice.