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The difference in fuel consumed from 40 down to 30 mpg was a little over 40 gallons over your ownership (so under $200). That hardly seems worth changing cars
by sokoloff 4y ago
The difference in fuel consumed from 40 down to 30 mpg was a little over 40 gallons over your ownership (so under $200).
That hardly seems worth changing cars over once you’ve bought it.
- TylerE 4y agoWe really need to start using gallons per distance instead of distance per gallon. The former doesn’t distort the proportion. Going from 10mpg to 20 is massive, literally double the efficiency. 20 to 30 is still a pretty big deal. 30 to 40 is noticeable, but not really a huge deal. 40 to 50 is barely above the noise floor
- analog31 4y agoThere are all kinds of interesting "reciprocal" units that lead to confusion. Another one is price-to-earnings ratio, which goes through an anomaly at zero, even though earnings-to-price ratio is a nice smooth function.
- vuln 4y agoOkay extrapolate that over 100k miles. If the battery even lasts that long. It wasn’t good for our use case and we incurred zero loss if anything we made money selling it back. They were in very high demand.