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I drive a 2007 station wagon like a grandpa. Average diesel consumption? 4.0l/100km. For those less into SI units, that's over 200 megabarleycorn per rundlet! [

I drive a 2007 station wagon like a grandpa. Average diesel consumption? 4.0l/100km. For those less into SI units, that's over 200 megabarleycorn per rundlet! [0] Back on topic, PHEV's often get preferential tax treatment. My old car gets punished, barred even from some cities. That makes sense only if completely disregarding actual usage. I can't possibly justify the ecological expense of selling a car that sees under 5000 km/year of usage, but misaligned government incentives increasingly push me to. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units#Length https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units#Length [1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proximus.be%2Fpickx%2Fnl%2F1531419%2Fde-rammelkar-van-wouter-van-besien https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

saalweachter 6y ago
In proper US customary units, that's 62 square mil. The Chevy Volt only gets about 90 square mil on its generator, but its battery is more like 33 square mil-e.
- Loughla 6y ago
  Why did you say square miles? What an odd measurement to use. That's 62 miles per gallon and 90 miles per gallon. Why use area as a measurement and not distance?
  - frankus 6y ago
    OP is doing a bit, but it’s because a volume (liters) divided by a distance (km) reduces to an area. You can think of it as the cross-sectional area of a hypothetical straw sucking up fuel from a continuous trough set into the roadway.
  - saalweachter 6y ago
    Square mil, and square mil-e[quivalent], for the battery-only efficiency, not miles. When you have a volume-per-distance measurement, such as liters/km, you can cancel units to get an area. The square mil -- a mil is 1/1000 of an inch, usually used in machining parts -- is the US customary unit which is best suited to the magnitude; 62 square mil is so much nicer than 0.04 square millimeters or 40000 square micrometers.
    - Loughla 6y ago
      That went securely over top of my head.

saalweachter 6y ago

In proper US customary units, that's 62 square mil. The Chevy Volt only gets about 90 square mil on its generator, but its battery is more like 33 square mil-e.

Loughla 6y ago
Why did you say square miles? What an odd measurement to use. That's 62 miles per gallon and 90 miles per gallon. Why use area as a measurement and not distance?
- frankus 6y ago
  OP is doing a bit, but it’s because a volume (liters) divided by a distance (km) reduces to an area. You can think of it as the cross-sectional area of a hypothetical straw sucking up fuel from a continuous trough set into the roadway.
- saalweachter 6y ago
  Square mil, and square mil-e[quivalent], for the battery-only efficiency, not miles. When you have a volume-per-distance measurement, such as liters/km, you can cancel units to get an area. The square mil -- a mil is 1/1000 of an inch, usually used in machining parts -- is the US customary unit which is best suited to the magnitude; 62 square mil is so much nicer than 0.04 square millimeters or 40000 square micrometers.
  - Loughla 6y ago
    That went securely over top of my head.