Hello friends

Kilometer (km) is the unit of measure for distance and
liter (l) is the unit of measure for liquid volume and

km/l makes sense or atleast l/km.

I dont know how the liters / 100 km  came into
picture.  Sadly Europeans are using it.

Madan



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100 km/l.  Is this correct?  I use L/100 km.

Baron Carter  

-----Original Message-----
From: Ma Be [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 July, 2001 13:26
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:14320] mi/gal


On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:11:58  
 kilopascal wrote:
>2001-07-11
>...
>It isn't that amazing when you realize no one actually measures their fuel
>consumption.  They just go by some figure that was parrotted to they by
some
>auto salesman or someone else...

True, however, I do calculate my fuel consumption all the time to make sure
my car is in good running condition.  Since I always fill it up, it's easier
for me to do it via km/l, instead of 100 km/l.  I take my odometer
kilometerage and divide that by the number of liters I put in the gas tank.
Most of the time I don't even use a calculator and obtain a good
approximation by fiddling with the numbers so that my mental calc can be
easier.  Example, if my reading is 548.7, I just adjust that to 550.  Then
if my liter value was 33.1 I just take 100/3 and get the final result as
16.5 km/l!  ;-)

Marcus


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