• KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca
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    11 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”.

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      11 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.

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        11 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

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          11 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

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          11 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.

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            11 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.

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              11 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

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          11 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.

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            11 months ago

            What? A pickup uses 15-28 l/100km.

            A Silverado uses 15MPG, according to GM themselves. That’s like 16l/100km

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              11 months ago

              A Polo 3-cylinder runs at around 5.5l/100km mixed city/interstate. 16l is atrocius

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              11 months ago

              Yeah pickups and SUVs are gas guzzlers. i get about 5.5L/100km with my Honda Fit

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                11 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.

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                  11 months ago

                  People probably misread the intended question as denial of lower consumptions cars existing. The interwebs are fickle