More U.K. “fun” examples:
• Beer served in pints by on-licenses, millilitres by off-licences
• Even though distances are all in miles, and petrol/diesel sold in litres, fuel efficiency is in either g/km or miles-per-gallon
• Beer served in pints by on-licenses, millilitres by off-licences
• Even though distances are all in miles, and petrol/diesel sold in litres, fuel efficiency is in either g/km or miles-per-gallon
Sure but a pint is defined as 568ml. The only one that really is quirky is how people haven't yet grasped kilometers yet they're the easiest to grok, it's just 1.6 * miles.
. . . which I have previously determined to be within 0.5ml of the traditional volume.
This way round makes more sense -- "how much will it cost to travel X km" is a more common question than "how far can I travel with Y litres or £Z".
In essence I'd argue that most of the use of the any fuel efficiency metric is to simply rank cars, rather than to ever back out a genuinely useful cost/distance number. At which point furlongs per quart would be as effective as anything else...
MPG (l/100km) Combined: 52.3 (5.4)
https://indd.adobe.com/view/5e31eb47-fa8c-4be9-b739-b19d58c8...