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And we do not measure fuel consumption in "miles per gallon" , but "liters per 100km".

• jaclaz 6y ago
  >And we do not measure fuel consumption in "miles per gallon" , but "liters per 100km". Actually that is the "official" way of measurement (what you see on the car specifications or what the on board computer tells you), in speaking it is more common to say that you made 22 Km/liter (or 18, etc.) than to say you used 4.55 liters/100 Km (or 5.56 liters/100 Km).
  • avar 6y ago
    I've never heard anyone say that. Who are these people that are reading fuel consumption in their dashboard and doing the mental arithmetic to convert that to km/liter? I've only heard "my car spends about 5-8", meaning 5-8 l/100 km in casual conversation. I.e. the number you'd read directly from the dashboard.
    • jaclaz 6y ago
      Well, maybe it is just local, but before you had liters per 100 km or actually a dashboard at all (not so many year ago) all you had was a lousy analogic something with a hand that went from F to E and the only way to calculate (approximately) fuel consumption was to know how many liters you put on the refill and have the km since last refill. So you had (say) 30 liters needed to refill and travelled for 450 Km, now is it easier to divide 30 by 450 and multiply by 100 ( or divide 30 by 4.5) or divide 450 by 30? Besides the difference between (say) 18 and 19 Km/l is (IMHO) easier to visualize/appreciate than the difference between 5.56 and 5.26 l/100 km.