KM vs Miles
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And of course in this country, we've been buying fuel in litres for years, but STILL measure fuel consumption in m.p.GALLON - !
No doubt because 45 mpg sounds better than 10 mpl
And of course in this country, we've been buying fuel in litres for years, but STILL measure fuel consumption in m.p.GALLON - !
Or with some cars, gallons to the mile!
I had one of those, a Volvo V70 estate. I once drove up a four wheel drive track in it and you could see the petrol gauge needle going down as I drove.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Gallons/mile is actually an area. As explained by Randall Munroe (xkcd) here: https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
So you could express fuel efficiency in acres. Here's a link to a handy conversion
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=gallons+per+mile+vs+acres
So 50 miles per gal = 0.02 gal per mile ~= 1.4 x 10^-11 acres
So 50 mpg = 140 nano-acres I think
So you could express fuel efficiency in acres. Here's a link to a handy conversion
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=gallons+per+mile+vs+acres
So 50 miles per gal = 0.02 gal per mile ~= 1.4 x 10^-11 acres
So 50 mpg = 140 nano-acres I think
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I choose not to know that, and feel great to lose so much "more" weight these days
that only came in in the early 90s, as I remember I was learning to drive, and had all the stopping distances/thinking distances memorised in feet, and then my driving instructor mentioned in passing in my last lesson before my test, oh theres a new highway code, the distances are in metres now and you might get asked for both !!!
cue panic, off to a bookshop to find the newest highway code to buy and tried to memorise them in metres, fortunately they only asked for them in feet.
Alex321
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And of course now with EVs, they meaure charging in mph.
I only stopped when it passed he £1 per litre mark, as it became increasingly depressing remembering when it was £1 per gallon.
brommieinkorea
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In my ex hometown (Piqua,OH USA) a gas station opened that sold gas by the litre , this was in the late eighties. They didn't last long. I think it was rather inexpensive though, even when you did the math to convert to $/gallon.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
That makes a weird kind of sense. But it's specific to the vehicle type (and journey type) being charged. It would be like selling fuel in miles at the pump.
Then of course there are incandescent watt equivalent values for LED bulbs, that aren't real watts.
Punkawallah
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Which is longer than our current one, nearer the Nautical mile rather than the Virgin Queen’s.
