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Anyone who already had the opportunity to ride a bike has experienced the benefits of a system operating at coasting: As soon as a certain velocity is reached, the biker stops pedaling and just coasts down, administering the kinetic energy to minimize his own energy consumption. The idea, inspired by biking, that it is possible to improve fuel economy just by adopting clever coasting strategies suggests also a very promising perspective in the automotive world and, as a matter of fact, is not a really “new” thing: It has already been explored in the past on several different vehicle models. Unfortunately it has not been able to establish itself “de facto” in the market, probably due to the difficulty in conciliating the available technical solutions of the time to the extensive list of requirements imposed by automotive industry.