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35mpg == 15 km/L Wow, that's not good... A large Sedan from early 2000s driven well can easily beat that.. I regularly hear about small cars doing 70 mpg == 3

by jopsen 5y ago

35mpg == 15 km/L Wow, that's not good... A large Sedan from early 2000s driven well can easily beat that.. I regularly hear about small cars doing 70 mpg == 30km/L My Toyota Yaris is not fuel efficient at 130 km/h on the highway, but it still manages 40mpg = 17 km/L Of course, it's not SUV.. I basically decided against buy a big car until EVs are ready -- they are now, but that doesn't mean I should throw out my existing car :)

nimos 5y ago
Civic gets 36 combined, Corolla is 33 combined, Rav4/CRV are both 30 combined. A Prius is 54 combined. Not sure where you are hearing about 70 mpg.
- jopsen 5y ago
  My Toyota Yaris is rated at 27 km/L = 63mpg But maybe that's only downhill -- I'm certainly not reaching it :) But other mini cars like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo Or so I hear...
  - dahfizz 5y ago
    The Toyota Yaris gets 40mpg highway / 35 mpg combined: https://www.cars.com/articles/2020-toyota-yaris-mpg-can-frugal-be-fun-418734/ https://www.cars.com/articles/2020-toyota-yaris-mpg-can-frug...
raydev 5y ago
I think you've made an incorrect conversion to metric units. First off, if you're not in the US, make sure that you are converting from a US gallon, and not imperial gallon. 35 MPG (US gallons) = 6.72 Liters per 100 km
- jopsen 5y ago
  Mileage is really a mess... Some place in the EU uses L / 100km, others km/L, I was using Google so I think the unit was correct. Any case, my car does roughly 17 megameters / meter^3 -- that's proper SI units :)
raxxorrax 5y ago
In Europe the common metric is l/100km. 35 mpg translates to a little above 6.7 l/100km, which is good - average for a car in Europe (average is 7.8l/100km = 30mpg). I guess today there is a smaller difference in fuel efficiency. This is for gasoline, not diesel engines. US cars are a bit bigger than european or asian models, so they are probably a bit heavier. Still, I think fuel efficiency is pretty optimized in all modern cars regardless of where you live.

by jopsen 5y ago

nimos 5y ago

Civic gets 36 combined, Corolla is 33 combined, Rav4/CRV are both 30 combined. A Prius is 54 combined. Not sure where you are hearing about 70 mpg.

jopsen 5y ago
My Toyota Yaris is rated at 27 km/L = 63mpg But maybe that's only downhill -- I'm certainly not reaching it :) But other mini cars like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo Or so I hear...
- dahfizz 5y ago
  The Toyota Yaris gets 40mpg highway / 35 mpg combined: https://www.cars.com/articles/2020-toyota-yaris-mpg-can-frugal-be-fun-418734/ https://www.cars.com/articles/2020-toyota-yaris-mpg-can-frug...

raydev 5y ago

I think you've made an incorrect conversion to metric units. First off, if you're not in the US, make sure that you are converting from a US gallon, and not imperial gallon. 35 MPG (US gallons) = 6.72 Liters per 100 km

jopsen 5y ago
Mileage is really a mess... Some place in the EU uses L / 100km, others km/L, I was using Google so I think the unit was correct. Any case, my car does roughly 17 megameters / meter^3 -- that's proper SI units :)

raxxorrax 5y ago

In Europe the common metric is l/100km. 35 mpg translates to a little above 6.7 l/100km, which is good - average for a car in Europe (average is 7.8l/100km = 30mpg). I guess today there is a smaller difference in fuel efficiency. This is for gasoline, not diesel engines. US cars are a bit bigger than european or asian models, so they are probably a bit heavier. Still, I think fuel efficiency is pretty optimized in all modern cars regardless of where you live.