jeffw@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 1 year agoThe misleading, wasteful way we measure gas mileage, explainedwww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down12
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minus-squareMetaSynapse@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year 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-21 year 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. 🤔