Idling Awareness Day 2025

What is Idling Awareness Day?

Idling Awareness Day is a day created by vehicle technology specialist, HH Driveright  to communicate the negative impacts associated with leaving a vehicle engine idling, whether that is in standing traffic, on a driveway, or whilst stationary on the road for any other reason.

HH Driveright hope that Idling Awareness Day will raise awareness of the totally unnecessary CO² emissions generated and pushed out into the environment, because of drivers leaving their engines idling when there is no need to do so.

The message behind Idling Awareness Day is that drivers taking the simple action of turning their engines off, until ready to move again, would help air quality, particularly at key times, such as when children are walking to or from school.

They also aim to show fleet and private drivers how the bad habit of idling is costing them far too much, in terms of wasted fuel expenditure and how valuable savings could be made, if drivers recognised that fact.

HH Driveright hopes to plant the seed in drivers heads that ‘keeping on running’ is not the right thing to do.

When is Idling Awareness Day?

Idling Awareness Day 2025 will take place on the 17th May.

How to get involved in Idling Awareness Day 2025  

Make a change.

Drivers who regularly engage in engine idling are being asked to adopt a new habit and make a conscious effort to switch off their engines whilst stationary, at those times when leaving the engine running is totally unnecessary. Making this small change in driving behaviour will contribute to a cleaner environment and better health and also help save money on fuel.

Fleet managers wanting to take steps to cut their CO² emissions, can also enquire about HH Driveright’s GM2020 technology, which identifies when drivers are idling and also calculates CO² emissions generated by their fleet.