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jeffw@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago

The misleading, wasteful way we measure gas mileage, explained

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The misleading, wasteful way we measure gas mileage, explained

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jeffw@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago
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And how to measure fuel economy better.
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    Join us, we have L/100km instead

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    Can I please buy some of that $2.90 per gallon gasoline?

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      Cheap gas is half the reason we’re in this mess.

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    I get confused by any other system than KMs per litre

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      My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.

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      I wish that were used. But instead we get this inverse, L/100 km.

      Edit: after reading the article, apparently this is actually better. Even though km/L might seem easier to work with, it is misleading in terms of how you compare two vehicles.

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    It’s why the 2007 Chevy Tahoe Hybrid won a green car award. It may have been a measley 21MPG city (11.2 L/100km, 4.8gal/100mi), but that was 30% better than previous models.

    Notably, the US DOE shows gal/100mi on their fuel economy website already. https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2007_Chevrolet_Tahoe.shtml https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2008_Chevrolet_Tahoe.shtml

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    Good point, but GPHM has more syllables, and GPM makes it sound small;

    but still, maybe 50, 25, 15, and 10 MPG could be expressed as 0.02, 0.04, <0.07, and 0.1 GPM.

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