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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / June 2006

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Chris Taylor - 05 Jun 2006 12:51 GMT
ok can omeone telll me how to work out fuel econnomy
is it fuel used devided by mileage
C. E. White - 05 Jun 2006 15:56 GMT
If you are in the US, it is usually miles per gallon, so that would be:

fuel economy (Mpg) = Distance Driven (miles) / Fuel Used (gallons).

In countries that use the metric system, they usually state mileages as
liters of fuel per 100 kilometers (or something like that). In this case the
following formula would apply:

fuel economy (liters of fuel per 100 kilometer) = 100* fuel used (liters) /
distance drive (kilometers)

See
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/mpg/MPG.do?action=purchaseRecord
http://www.pege.org/fuel/convert.htm

If you want to get a true picture of your fuel mileage, you need to keep
records and calculate you mileage over several tank fulls of fuel (at least
three in my opinion) to minimize errors associated with filling the tank.

Regards,

Ed White

> ok can omeone telll me how to work out fuel econnomy
> is it fuel used devided by mileage
NapalmHeart - 10 Jun 2006 07:05 GMT
> ok can omeone telll me how to work out fuel econnomy
> is it fuel used devided by mileage

miles driven divided by fuel used.
C. E. White - 15 Jun 2006 14:51 GMT
> > ok can omeone telll me how to work out fuel econnomy
> > is it fuel used devided by mileage
>
> miles driven divided by fuel used.

In Australia they measure fuel economy in liters per 100 km, so the formula
would be (100*Liters of Fuel Used)/(Kilometers Driven).

Ed
NapalmHeart - 21 Jun 2006 15:40 GMT
>> > ok can omeone telll me how to work out fuel econnomy
>> > is it fuel used devided by mileage
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> Ed

True.  Generically, I guess you could say fuel used/distance.

Ken
 
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