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Researchers from Duke University tell us why a car's mpg rating can be deceiving.

Channel: Autos & Vehicles
Uploaded: June 19, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Author: newscientistvideo

Length: 00:03:16
Rating: 4.55
Views: 12503

Tags: mpg miles per gallon fuel efficiency car auto gas petrol

Video Comments:
PetrFM (August 24, 2008 at 11:32 pm)
We use litres per 100 kilometers in Europe witch is perfectly linear -just another reason why to leave outdated imperial unit system.
DiabloDeLuna (July 27, 2008 at 12:46 pm)
Double check your info, marky1333. A pint is 1/8 of a gallon, imperial or not.
DiabloDeLuna (July 27, 2008 at 12:48 pm)
By the way, this kind of confusion is exactly why the US needs to get off its ass and switch to metric.
DiabloDeLuna (July 27, 2008 at 12:18 pm)
LOL. MPG = 1 / GPM. Advice for iynque: don't do your own taxes.
dbohls (July 21, 2008 at 9:04 pm)
Did you hate math growing up?
dbohls (July 21, 2008 at 9:02 pm)
It'll be another 50 years because we make the switch to metric. We're too busy worrying about what our citizens are doing in their bedrooms and about concocted lies like epidemic youth violence.
dbohls (July 21, 2008 at 8:55 pm)
Yes Cactos, and I didn't need you to tell me that you didn't finish high school to know that. You might be smart, but it doesn't come across when you write like that.
RealMash (July 7, 2008 at 3:29 am)
Sorry to be upfront etc. but it is presented as litres/100km in Germany( I know ), France(I read in a French car magazine) and probably the rest of Europe. I was dumbfounded the first time I heard the American way to do it.

It is done the way they describe in Europe at least for fifty years!
And you need New Scientists to figure that out? What Europe does (metric, of course) for the last decades?

Dumbfounded again,
Michael
Zoiros85 (July 8, 2008 at 3:30 am)
In Norway we use:
liters/mil = liters/10km
vchasinatorv (July 7, 2008 at 1:04 am)
i don't want to fight... lets just make love