More on the truck
Apr. 10th, 2014 06:05 amI am interested in the fuel mileage for the truck.
So I set the trip odometer and record the readings when I fill up.
The first set of readings I got was 271.4 miles on 14.118* gallons of gas. That works out to 19.22 mpg.
This morning I fueled up and got 318.5 miles on 15.775 gallons of gas. That works out to 20.19 mpg. :=3
Combining the two readings I drove 589.9 miles on 29.893 gallons of gas. This works out to 19.73 mpg.
For you metric types, and you know who you are. :=3
1st fill up: 436.8km on 53.4 liters or 8.18 km/l
2nd fill up: 512.6km on 59.7 liters or 8.59 km/l
Combined: 949.4km on 113.1 liters or 8.39 km/l
Granted these are the first two readings, but I can say that I'm very happy with what I'm getting with fuel economy.
My morning drives are fairly easy with no traffic and highway, ~70 mph (112 Kph) average, driving. The evening commute is worse due to rush hour traffic, and, during the summer Friday evenings, traffic to the Jersey shore.
I need to get some long haul freeway driving to see what highway fuel economy is really like. Drive to Pittsburgh? Possibly.
* it should be noted, that of course, I'm using U.S. gallons of 128 U.S. ounces, and not the UK gallon of 160 UK ounces. It should be noted that 1 UK ounce = 0.9607599404038839 U.S. ounces, or 1 U.S. ounce = 1.040842730786236 UK ounces. How did the UK and U.S. volume measures get so out of sync?
Addendum: After playing with a calculator I figured out that one 1 mpg = ~2.35 km/l . Divide 20.19 mpg by 8.59 km/l and you come out to a factor of exactly 2.35. The other combinations are within two thousandths; 2.3496 and 2.3516 respectively.
So I set the trip odometer and record the readings when I fill up.
The first set of readings I got was 271.4 miles on 14.118* gallons of gas. That works out to 19.22 mpg.
This morning I fueled up and got 318.5 miles on 15.775 gallons of gas. That works out to 20.19 mpg. :=3
Combining the two readings I drove 589.9 miles on 29.893 gallons of gas. This works out to 19.73 mpg.
For you metric types, and you know who you are. :=3
1st fill up: 436.8km on 53.4 liters or 8.18 km/l
2nd fill up: 512.6km on 59.7 liters or 8.59 km/l
Combined: 949.4km on 113.1 liters or 8.39 km/l
Granted these are the first two readings, but I can say that I'm very happy with what I'm getting with fuel economy.
My morning drives are fairly easy with no traffic and highway, ~70 mph (112 Kph) average, driving. The evening commute is worse due to rush hour traffic, and, during the summer Friday evenings, traffic to the Jersey shore.
I need to get some long haul freeway driving to see what highway fuel economy is really like. Drive to Pittsburgh? Possibly.
* it should be noted, that of course, I'm using U.S. gallons of 128 U.S. ounces, and not the UK gallon of 160 UK ounces. It should be noted that 1 UK ounce = 0.9607599404038839 U.S. ounces, or 1 U.S. ounce = 1.040842730786236 UK ounces. How did the UK and U.S. volume measures get so out of sync?
Addendum: After playing with a calculator I figured out that one 1 mpg = ~2.35 km/l . Divide 20.19 mpg by 8.59 km/l and you come out to a factor of exactly 2.35. The other combinations are within two thousandths; 2.3496 and 2.3516 respectively.