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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by jopsen on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @12:04PM (#29320226)
35mpg == 15 km/L

Wow, that's not good... A large Sedan from early 2000s driven well can easily beat that..

I regularly hear about small cars doing 70 mpg == 30km/L

My Toyota Yaris is not fuel efficient at 130 km/h on the highway, but it still manages 40mpg = 17 km/L

Of course, it's not SUV.. I basically decided against buy a big car until EVs are ready -- they are now, but that doesn't mean I should throw out my existing car :)

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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by raydev on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:59PM (#29322558)
I think you've made an incorrect conversion to metric units.

First off, if you're not in the US, make sure that you are converting from a US gallon, and not imperial gallon.

35 MPG (US gallons) = 6.72 Liters per 100 km

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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by jopsen on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:00PM (#29323460)
Mileage is really a mess... Some place in the EU uses L / 100km, others km/L, I was using Google so I think the unit was correct.

Any case, my car does roughly 17 megameters / meter^3 -- that's proper SI units :)

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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by raxxorrax on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @05:46AM (#29328723)
In Europe the common metric is l/100km. 35 mpg translates to a little above 6.7 l/100km, which is good - average for a car in Europe (average is 7.8l/100km = 30mpg). I guess today there is a smaller difference in fuel efficiency. This is for gasoline, not diesel engines.

US cars are a bit bigger than european or asian models, so they are probably a bit heavier. Still, I think fuel efficiency is pretty optimized in all modern cars regardless of where you live.

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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by nimos on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:53PM (#29321659)
Civic gets 36 combined, Corolla is 33 combined, Rav4/CRV are both 30 combined. A Prius is 54 combined. Not sure where you are hearing about 70 mpg.
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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by jopsen on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @03:55PM (#29323390)
My Toyota Yaris is rated at 27 km/L = 63mpg

But maybe that's only downhill -- I'm certainly not reaching it :)

But other mini cars like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo

Or so I hear...

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Re:U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with ot... by dahfizz on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:51PM (#29324015)
The Toyota Yaris gets 40mpg highway / 35 mpg combined: https://www.cars.com/articles/2020-toyota-yaris-mpg-can-frug...
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