The cost is not very high. Whatever the cost of a division by 1.609344 km/mi is.
You may have reversed multiplication and division or something. 34 kWh/100 miles is 122.4 MJ/100 mi or ~0.76 MJ/km, well under the supposed goal of <2 MJ/km. ________________________________ From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, November 23, 2010 11:19:52 PM Subject: [USMA:48916] Nissan Leaf Dear All, See http://www.autoblog.com/2010/11/22/nissan-leaf-snags-99-mpg-rating-on-official-epa-sticker Earlier I mentioned the cost of the "metric conversion" approach to metrication. I wonder how much this lot of metric conversion cost already and how much it will cost in the future. This car was most likely designed by Nissan in Japan, built wholly using metric units, particularly the millimetre, and then tested using joules, watts kilograms, and kilometres. One wonders whether one of the design goals was to get below 2 megajoules per kilometre. Finally, all the metric units have been hidden though the metric conversion processes to comply with the regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency in the USA. I ask again, "At what cost?" Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/ to subscribe.
