jeffw@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 4 months agoThe misleading, wasteful way we measure gas mileage, explainedwww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down12
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkThe misleading, wasteful way we measure gas mileage, explainedwww.vox.comjeffw@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 4 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareMetaSynapse@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 months agoJust drop the M - GPH/gallons per hundred is just as short and easy to say as MPG. In Australia we say “litres per hundred”, there’s no point specifying kilometres because what else would it be?
minus-squareDMCMNFIBFFF@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 months ago“x ℓ/100” maybe. maybe “x mL/km” (“x milliliters/km”)—as in “80 mL/km” or maybe “x kL/Mm” (“x kiloliters/megameters”)—as in 0.8 kL or 800ℓ/Mm" I have to think about it. 🤔
Just drop the M - GPH/gallons per hundred is just as short and easy to say as MPG.
In Australia we say “litres per hundred”, there’s no point specifying kilometres because what else would it be?
“x ℓ/100”
maybe.
maybe “x mL/km” (“x milliliters/km”)—as in “80 mL/km”
or
maybe “x kL/Mm” (“x kiloliters/megameters”)—as in 0.8 kL or 800ℓ/Mm"
I have to think about it. 🤔