- KrummsHairyBalls ( @KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca ) 26•7 months ago
Reminds me of an app I downloaded the other day to help plan routes. They asked for my cars “KPL”.
Like what? Who in the world says KPL? It’s l/100KM.
While I’m aware that some places may use KPL, it just seems very American to go “hey, we use MPG, so they must use KPL”.
- bstix ( @bstix@feddit.dk ) English8•7 months ago
I grew up with km/L.
I don’t mind using whatever scale, but it’s somewhat better for comparing the numbers that cars actually use, because with l/100km every car is five something or six something.
Also the higher numbers are better like everything else on the car comparison cards.
- KrummsHairyBalls ( @KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca ) 3•7 months ago
I’d love to know which cars you drive with 5-6 l/100km lol
My best vehicle is 10. My worst is 28. Unless you’re a hybrid, I don’t know of a single vehicle doing 5-6l/100km
- Knuschberkeks ( @Knuschberkeks@feddit.de ) 3•7 months ago
what? Even my parents 6 Seater family car drank only 8l back in the day, I drive my Opel Astra with about 7 and my brothers little fiat drinks 4,5 if he drives efficiently. You gotts have either s pickup truck or something really old.
- KrummsHairyBalls ( @KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca ) 2•7 months ago
What? A pickup uses 15-28 l/100km.
A Silverado uses 15MPG, according to GM themselves. That’s like 16l/100km
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 3•7 months ago
Yeah pickups and SUVs are gas guzzlers. i get about 5.5L/100km with my Honda Fit
- KrummsHairyBalls ( @KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca ) 2•7 months ago
Ya I don’t know why I’m being down voted for saying what my cars get. Never said anything better didn’t exist, just asked which other cars get less.
I fucking hate Lemmy. I asked a question and I’m downvoted. Fuck this place. There’s no way to have a god damn discussion here.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 3•7 months ago
People probably misread the intended question as denial of lower consumptions cars existing. The interwebs are fickle
- onion ( @onion@feddit.de ) 2•7 months ago
A Polo 3-cylinder runs at around 5.5l/100km mixed city/interstate. 16l is atrocius
- KrummsHairyBalls ( @KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca ) 2•7 months ago
I’ve never seen a 3 cylinder vehicle in my life lol.
- onion ( @onion@feddit.de ) 1•7 months ago
You propably did but never noticed.
It’s a 1l 75hp engine, topping out at 175km/h or 108mph. Perfect for a commuter car
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 1•7 months ago
Remember The Ford Fiesta, or was it the Firefly?? Iforget the name but that was a 3 cylinder.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 3•7 months ago
Our Honda Fit does about 5.5L/100km if I drive and about 7.5L/100km if my wife drives. I have had it as low as 3.9 But that was purposely watching acceleration and avoiding hills
- bstix ( @bstix@feddit.dk ) English2•7 months ago
I’ve had Opel, Renault, Peugeot, VW, Skoda, Mazda, Suzuki.
None of them were worse than 7 L/100km. Pretty much all modern cars go at 5 L/100km unless you get something with a larger engine.
Never had a hybrid.
- KrummsHairyBalls ( @KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca ) 1•7 months ago
Pretty much none of those brands exist in Canada, or are extremely uncommon. Not to mention the cold weather makes our fuel economy even worse.
- dunz ( @dunz@feddit.nu ) 2•7 months ago
All these brands exist in northern Europe, they work fine here. My 2007 VW Golf does about 6-7l per 100km. They aren’t unusual numbers really
- ursakhiin ( @ursakhiin@beehaw.org ) 2•7 months ago
I’d imagine they were giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming everybody uses a metric that allows for 1 conversion to tell how far a tank of fuel will take you.
- Lynxtickler ( @Lynxtickler@sopuli.xyz ) 2•7 months ago
They use KPL in Japan at least, but I doubt the app was Japanese lol
- MasterNerd ( @MasterNerd@lemm.ee ) 21•7 months ago
Dude it’s such an easy conversion between dongles and whatsits, you just don’t get how intuitive it is. There are 42.48 whatsits in a dongle, and 17.49 dongles in a shlorp. Europeans are overreacting so much
- Ranvier ( @Ranvier@sopuli.xyz ) 14•7 months ago
- MacN'Cheezus ( @MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ) 5•7 months ago
I prefer to measure speed in football fields per minute.
- IDontHavePantsOn ( @IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee ) 0•7 months ago
You make dem der figures FPH n’ you got a deal. I don’t wanna be going no 600 yards a minute. I wanna be cruisin at 35000 yard and hour, ya hur?
- MacN'Cheezus ( @MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ) 1•7 months ago
A mile is about 15 football fields, so if we did switch to using that measurement, we could all be going 1,000 on the freeway.
- IDontHavePantsOn ( @IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee ) 3•7 months ago
Ur gotdang right. My Mopar might be a four banger, but with cheezus behind the wheel we’re gon’ near 1700 n’ gettin 500 a gallon.
- MacN'Cheezus ( @MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ) 1•7 months ago
Hmmm yeah… I know some of those words.
- TimeSquirrel ( @TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ) 4•7 months ago
Modern tech makes a lot of this irrelevant. I can drive from US into Canada, spend 5 seconds going through my cars settings, and have everything displayed in km, even the km I have left in the tank. It’s like when coders use constants in their program, and only have to remember the constant name while the number it represents can change in a config header or something. The program still runs as normal while silently using the new value.
It’s not really worth caring about. Not in everyday life. I’d say differently if you were a scientist or engineer. Metric should be the measurement system of all STEM.
- esteemedtogami ( @esteemedtogami@lemmy.one ) 3•7 months ago
I’m all for the Scott Pilgrim memes
- sour ( @sour@kbin.social ) 1•7 months ago
america kilometers