More on the truck

[lionkingcmsl]

I 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.

Comments

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Your 20 to the gallon would be a UK 24miles to the gallon... that's what I used to get from a 1.8litre Volks campervan.. AND a 900 cc Bedford/Suzuki camper (small engine but the aerodynamics of a house brick - Flat out she'd do 60mph unless there was a contrary wind... 30 mph, then.

I remember facing into a raging storm across the QEii bridge across the Thames on the M25.... 30 mph and the impression of roundin' the Horn ah-harrr

I couldn't afford my commute to work (250ml/week) at that consumption.... fuel here is £1.269/litre and that's at the cheapy cheapy.

Funny isn't it? here in the UK we fill in litres, but measure mph, and mpg.....we use Celcius for body temperature but Fahrenheit for weather reports....

Bugger the Continong says I

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

I just use Fuelly. http://www.fuelly.com/dashboard/