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It's only something you can visualise if you grew up with imperial units; "42 feet per gallon" is not inherently easier than "3.4 meters per liter", nor "125.7

• wtallis 16y ago
  But all of those are far more accessible than 29573.53L/100km, which most people would just round up to "a hell of a lot". Using conventional units doesn't really help when the magnitude is so high.
  • rue 16y ago
    It consumes about the same as 5500 mid-sized cars?
  • pmjordan 16y ago
    30000 litres is the same as 30 cubic metres, i.e. "small swimming pool". Easy.
• spectre 16y ago
  The advantage to the metric system is the ease of converting between units. I can convert from metres per litre to litres per kilometre by dividing the former into 1000. In this case 1000/3.4 = 294 (Approx)