r/MadeMeSmile • u/JJJ_177 • 1d ago
Small Success Averaged 45.6 MPG on my way to work! (OC)
Gas prices are so high by me I couldn’t help but smile!
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u/SomeFunnyGuy 1d ago
Thats because you work down in the valley. Now lets see it when you drive home up the mountain!
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u/Practicaly777 1d ago
I drive up the mountain both ways to get to school
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u/WarkMahlberg69 22h ago
In the snow
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u/StefeNeustedt 21h ago
With wolves howling in the background
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u/ircsmith 21h ago
From the back seat. Their breath stinks.
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u/DolfHipster 19h ago
I legit walked to school uphill both ways for a few years. My neighborhood and school were at the top of different huge hills
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u/LimeGreenSea 18h ago
I grew up 0.1km out of the bus zone at the top of a valley with parents who forced us to go to school on snow days. It was 2km uphill both ways in any type of weather.
I dead ass remember the school calling my Mom on a snow day telling her they were sending us home because it was already over a foot of snow and was going to get worse. She literally told them to keep us there and the school was like "no... we are closing the school."
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u/featherwolf 1d ago
This would be normal or even low for most vehicles today if lobbyists never existed
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u/New-Neighborhood-147 17h ago edited 15h ago
This is normal/low for European cars. My shitbox 2011 i10 gets 60mpg. Modern larger cars here achieve this easily.
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u/ChickenPijja 15h ago
In all fairness, an American gallon is smaller than a uk gallon, by about 20%. So 60mpg for uk is about 52 mpg in the USA, admittedly it still outperforms what op has posted, but the difference is not quite so big.
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u/Danyderossi 12h ago
You two have different gallons?! Unbelievable
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u/ChickenPijja 5h ago
yep, just to add to the confusion. 1 US gallon is 3.7 litres. 1 UK gallon is 4.5 litres.
Completely caught me out the first time I went to America and thought their fuel per gallon was too cheap, like half the price until I looked it up later
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u/NonViolentCriminal 14h ago
You guys measure in MPG and not MPL?
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u/goodtobadinfivesec 14h ago
Not everything metric over there, there is a weird combo. You may have heard people ordering pints of beer there in movies etc
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u/UsualCircle 4h ago
No, most of europe uses liters per 100km.
You guys measure how far you can go per unit of fuel, we measure how much fuel we need for a fixed distance.60 MPG (using the UK Gallon) would be 4,7 l/100km
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u/nevergoingtocomment3 16h ago
I dont mean to be an asshole but is that how European is spelled where you are from or is that just a typo? I dont think I've ever read Europian before but I also dont want to assume you dont know how to spell where you are from.
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u/New-Neighborhood-147 16h ago
Lol just a typo. I'm a dyslexic Brit
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u/nevergoingtocomment3 16h ago
Oh no worries lol. I misspelled indian as indien once even though I am from India so I completely understand lol
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u/YoyoChinChin 12h ago
Honorary french citizenship is yours, mon chère indien !
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u/nevergoingtocomment3 12h ago
Would you be surprised if I told you that's how I got confused between both the spellings lmao
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u/minxamo8 38m ago
Doubt. I had a 2015 i10 and it sat around 52-55mpg. I don't believe the fuel economy got significantly worse over those 4 years
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u/ninedollars 10h ago
The amount of Europeans saying this is low is definitely an eye opener for me…
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u/Similar_Pension_4233 22h ago
Check your sources. 1/3 cars sold in the US are pick ups. Find a pick up that gets 40+, now ask if an American will actually buy it. Sedans make up 15% of market, and it's disingenuous to use them as the standard for MPG when they make up such a small market share in the US.
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u/featherwolf 22h ago edited 20h ago
That is exactly what I am talking about. Lobbyists watered down efficiency regulations to let them continue selling heavily polluting/inefficient trucks and SUVs rather than redesigning them to be smaller and more efficient like the cars and trucks they sell in Europe/Asia.
If these lobbyists were not allowed to exist, we would be living in a very different world right now.
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u/MadDucksofDoom 20h ago
I know that it is a one off. But I covet my friends Ford Maverick with the hybrid engine setup. He gets 40mpg on a bad day.
Meanwhile I am over here with my 24 year old work truck keeping on top of the maintenance to desperately cling to my 19mpg that I only get if everything is in tip top shape.
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u/Select-Agency-9827 19h ago
I get your point, but I literally could not use a smaller pickup for my work.
People buying large vehicles just because is another animal entirely.
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u/featherwolf 19h ago
For sure. There are definitely legitimate uses for large vehicles with ICE engines that BEVs or more efficient vehicles can't fill currently, but yeah my point was about the majority of regular passenger vehicles.
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u/interrogumption 16h ago
The old and much smaller pickups of the 80s-2000s often had the same or bigger beds than the monster trucks today. The growth has been about exploiting classification loopholes, not increasing the actual vehicle capabilities.
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u/01WS6 13h ago
It's not about bed size, it's about towing and hauling capacity.
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u/interrogumption 9h ago
Those, also, have not increased proportionately to the increased size of vehicles. I mean, sure, the raw numbers are significantly higher but practically speaking a lot of these trucks can't legally/safely tow at their capacities unless you empty all passengers and cargo from the truck and have a jockey drive it.
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u/Similar_Pension_4233 21h ago
I just checked Europe and the best selling pick up in Europe doesn't get 40+MPG. Your describing a pick up that either doesn't exist, is too expensive, or nobody wants anywhere in the world.
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u/featherwolf 21h ago
You are either missing the point or being intentionally obtuse. Either way, I am gonna let the matter drop.
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u/waytoosecret 21h ago
Who tf said anything about pick ups?
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u/Select-Agency-9827 19h ago
The comment that the commenter you’re responding to used the word “trucks” and clearly meant pickups, as SUV’s were also mentioned specifically.
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u/MrHanSolo 21h ago
Have you ever wondered why sedans make up such a small percentage of the market compared to the rest of the world? Hint: It’s not because Americans need pickups more than other countries.
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u/Fauked 19h ago
A more interesting statistic would be how many pickups are just pavement princesses vs actual work trucks.
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u/ortrademe 18h ago
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u/therealhlmencken 17h ago
Power nation tv wow bro cool
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u/ortrademe 17h ago
Okay, here is the Axios article it referenced. https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history
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u/ortrademe 20h ago edited 16h ago
Trucks were given lower efficiency standards in the 70s because they were 'for work'. Today, over half of all trucks tow 1 or less times per year. Americans don't buy trucks to use them as work trucks. They buy them because decades of pro-truck propaganda selling them as a lifestyle rather than utility. Auto makers turned trucks bodies into SUVs to claim they're trucks and thus exempt from passenger car standards.
SUVs and trucks have lower fuel efficiency standards and higher profit margins. Of course auto makers lobby to make the standards weaker. See the proposed "Transportation Freedom Act". Your stats are BECAUSE of lobbyists, not in spite of them.
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u/Docterafett 21h ago
im from europe and i had lower gas usage than this. ~5.6 L /100 km (45 mpg) great but not world breaking
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u/parnaoia 18h ago
i've had a VW Touran for an entire summer, ferried 6 kids at rugby tournaments throughout the country, and averaged 3,5L/100km -70mpg
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u/DelayedIntentions 20h ago
I drive a Maverick hybrid and love it. Not quite 40 mpg average, but I often get 50 driving around town. It’s a brick on the freeway though.
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u/KnifeKnut 19h ago
We need the return of the coupe utility now more than ever. But no, the 2008 banking crisis screwed that up for GM. Plus CAFE standards.
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u/kaiserlaika 22h ago
Assuming this is US mpg, that’s 54.76 mpg imperial
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u/The_Gene_Genie 21h ago
Which still isn't great
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u/Unusual_Fortune2048 13h ago
Bro what? Most cars get 20 if they're lucky.
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u/WallabyInTraining 7h ago
Trucks maybe. Otherwise 20 mpg is abysmal for any car.
Modern cars easily do over 50.
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u/Unusual_Fortune2048 6h ago
Not sure what kind of magic cars y'all getting, my 04 Camry gets 20 average and that's considered good. We're using the same units right? MILES per GALLON.
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u/WallabyInTraining 5h ago
04 as in 2004?
If so: That's over 20 years old and not what I would call a modern car.
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u/Unusual_Fortune2048 5h ago
Yes 2004. However, several of my friends have newer cars and they get a similar milage.
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u/Szill 19h ago edited 19h ago
Is that 5,23 Litern per 100 km? Isn't that pretty normal?
https://i.imgur.com/vIzHM4X.jpeg
I did 3.6l/100km on the autobahn last winter. Like 65? mpg?
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u/CoffeeIgnoramus 22h ago edited 3h ago
Can I ask (presume) this is a US based post?
I feel like this is not highly efficient for the UK. My current car does about 40mpg average without trying to be careful and it's a relatively powerful car, I have comfortably got 50mpg out of it... My previous car did about 70mpg average and on a straight at 50mph, I could get 100mpg average. It was an economical car, but I just think that gives context as to why I assume this is from a country where efficiency isn't really that important.
Edit: Interestingly people are giving me how much they could do on highways (the most efficient part of driving). If we're specifying highway then my 40mpg car does 50-60mpg no problem. But I was giving an annual average based on also having city start/stop traffic and small countryside lanes (youtube some british countryside lanes to see how precarious that is) included.
I also find it interesting how nationalist people are in the comment. People getting angry when you point out American cars are not efficient and the same when you point out that fuel prices in the UK are terrible... Which is really weird that people have these blind spots. No country is perfect, stop panicking the second someone points out a flaw.
My country is the UK and I honestly see so many flaws with it, our roads are utter shite, our fuel is almost prohibitively expensive, our energy costs for homes are basically unaffordable for millions, our water infrastructure is hilariously bad for such a rich country (privatised and leaks everywhere but we are asked to reduce our usage)... I'm under no elusions about my country's failings. When I point out flaws in your country, it's not a nationalist "My country is better than yours", it's just noticing differences. If you're worried the rest of the world doesn't see your country as the ultimate example of utopia, I have news for you. No one has ever had a consensus on that and never will. We all just have different views and countries we like. Your country (and every country) is loved by some and hated by others.
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u/AnOwlWithKnees69 21h ago
US gallon is ~20% smaller volume than UK gallon so equivalent MPG would be about 54 here in UK. Still not great at all. Similar to you I can easily get 70mpg with some careful driving.
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u/Winter_drivE1 19h ago
Which is wild because I'd say the 46 US MPG in the screenshot is well above average in the US. (I assume it's US since they said "gas" instead of "petrol") New hybrid economy cars are still only rated at around 30-40 MPG by the EPA and have been pretty stagnant around that number for many years. Big and/or powerful cars only go down from there.
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u/AskOk3196 19h ago
Wtf do you drive that you get 70?!
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u/Kulas30 19h ago
Diesel VW polos have been able to nail 60+ mpg for nearly 20 years.
Us Americans got cooked on the small car offerings.
Thank the SUV/CUV Mafia.
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u/RemyVonLion 18h ago
Damn wtf I thought you had to drive a hybrid or electric to get more than 34 since that's what my Honda Civic gets
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u/Kulas30 18h ago
Nah. EU has been flat spanking us on fuel economy for ages.
Now to be fair they spend far more per gallon than we do.
But our cheap (subsidized) fuel has not caused us as a society to demand what they have.
Ergo we consider 40 mpg amazing.
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u/RemyVonLion 18h ago
Sounds like another case of businesses profiting off of government subsidy at the cost of consumers and the environment, typical profitmaxxing country things haha
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u/madein___ 15h ago
Can you clarify what you mean by government subsidy?
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u/RemyVonLion 15h ago edited 14h ago
The US government loves to give tax breaks, bailouts, payments, favorable policies, laws, and low rate loans to for-profit companies whose only interest is their bottom line, because they hold up the economy and said government. Money is the only thing that matters here, people be damned. We're racing towards our own destruction by trying to build the machine God ASAP at the cost of humanity and empathy.
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u/RemyVonLion 14h ago
Yeah that's the very obvious trade off, a full tank for me is only $35. But it's insane how much they intentionally sacrifice mpg, the geo-politics of the economy are mind-boggling.
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u/Comfortable_Act9136 16h ago
Petrol or diesel? My petrol 1.6 ds3 will average between 45 to 55 mpg on a motorway run with careful driving and that’s pretty good for a petrol
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u/No-Restaurant7802 14h ago edited 13h ago
I'm lucky enough to average about 40mpg/hwy in my 13 year old car.
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u/CoffeeIgnoramus 6h ago
Oh, if we're talking highway, I wouldn't struggle 60mpg.
I'm talking general use average over a year being 40mpg. A mostly city driving and small streets with stop and go (probably 60% and then 40% on highways).
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u/Acc87 1d ago
that's 5,23 litres per 100 km. Typical numbers for a compact car. What do you drive?
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u/Not_So_Smart_Ad 21h ago
It is about what my Ford focus estate does when u drive normal. I’ll get it below 5 if I am really careful
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u/Walldaddy2000 1d ago
45.6mpg is typical for compact cars?
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u/Master-Constant-4431 22h ago
I drive a compact Citroën and it averages at 4.1 l/100km which is a 57mpg
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u/Happy-Engineer 1d ago
Any modern Ford Fiesta averages mid 40s and can go up to 60s in good conditions
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u/WatchfulApparition 23h ago
A Ford Fiesta won't come near those numbers in the United States.
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u/venom121212 19h ago
Well yeah... they haven't been sold here in 7 years so modern ones don't exist.
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u/WatchfulApparition 19h ago
I'm not aware of any non-electrified cars that can hit that fuel economy number on average in the United States, including cars from the UK. The one advantage that cars in the UK have is sometimes they make less horsepower than the US version so they can get better fuel economy.
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u/WordSalad11 15h ago
The 1.0L Ecoboost will make those numbers, but Americans want more power; a Prius will smoke them in a drag race.
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u/Walldaddy2000 1d ago
Right but I don’t think it’s typical that all compact cars get 45mpg
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u/NastyCabbage 1d ago
In US gallons, no. In Imperial gallons, yes.
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u/dangerduhmort 23h ago
It never occurred to me that us mpg is different than uk mpg. No wonder it seems like all their cars get such good mileage and gas is so expensive!?! Here I thought big oil was keeping technology from us… Now I feel kinda dumb.
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u/wingspan50 22h ago
Yeah I second this. Owned one in the states. I’d get 50mpg max on a downhill. Average was like 35
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u/drakesdrum 2h ago
My 2004 honda jazz gets this or more. UK.
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u/Thomppa26 19h ago
My father's old Skoda Octavia with a 1.9 TDi got about the same or even less fuel consumption. While my current car consumes about 8-10 liters per 100 km.
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u/UsualCircle 4h ago
I recently saw a video of a dude trying a hypermiling attempt with a 1.9 TDI VW.
He drove 2400km (nearly 1500 miles) on a single tank of gas, averaging somewhere between 2.5 and 3 l/100km (thats around 90 MPG).
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u/_Pawer8 23h ago
That's good?
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u/BasieP2 21h ago
Not for an average European car.. It seems to be for an average American can if i read this thread correctly...
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u/AzureMountains 15h ago
It’s great for an American car. My truck gets 21 mpg (gas). The last truck I had for 12 mpg (diesel). Granted, this is gallons not liters.
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u/AlpenliebeLollipop7 1d ago
That's 19.39 kmpl for anyone wondering
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u/tduncs88 19h ago
I would kill for that mileage. I have a lead foot but have been absolutely babying my current daily (mid 2000s small SUV) and even trying as hard as possible to get the best mileage possible, i'm getting 20.3 mpg on my commute.
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u/LeMadChefsBack 18h ago
I know that “just buy a new vehicle” isn’t in the cards for everyone but my eCVT FWD Ford Maverick regularly gets 45-50 MPG in city traffic. It’s more like 35-37 on long highway trips.
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u/tduncs88 17h ago
Yeah, it's not in the cards for me at the moment. However, it's something I'm looking at doing hopefully in the next year. Just doing the napkin math, I'd be looking at about $2k a year in savings. obviously there would be a car payment, but I'd love to be in something with a warranty and under 100k miles. lol
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u/michaelhayze 23h ago
I can push my polo vw 1.2tsi to 65mpg but I don’t always drive efficiently, so normally get between 40-50 mpg.
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u/WiskeyUniformTango 21h ago
My wife's rav4 hybrid has a 5 year average mpg of 38.6 mpg.
My truck on the other hand has a 3 year average of 11mpg diesel.
Such a different cost for driving each.
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u/HalfEnvironmental153 1d ago
My BMW 1 from 2008 averages on 4.7 Litre per 100 KM
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u/Average_Energy 23h ago
How? Genuinely how? Is it diesel?
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u/HalfEnvironmental153 23h ago
Yes - diesel.
My old Ford Focus from 1999 - was running at 4.5 with Normal 95.3
u/Average_Energy 23h ago
Thats… more understandable. Old german petrol cars drink fuel like they’re chugging a beer on a random Tuesday.
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u/waytoosecret 21h ago
That's less than 20 km/L. An old Skoda I drove years ago would do 25+. Modern cars are even better, unless you're murican and for some reason think you need pickups and trucks to go grocery shopping or commuting.
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u/Ihave2thumbs 20h ago
It’s not even about pickups and trucks. American vehicles simply aren’t built to prioritize efficiency.
There literally isn’t a (non-electric) sedan on the American market that breaks your 25km/L (~59mpg). Closest is the Prius at 57mpg, and a few others in the low 50’s.
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u/Igmuhota 1d ago
Oh man, this takes me back to years ago when we got our first Prius.
I was bordering on neurosis at times trying to keep my average above 50mpg. Pretty sure my wife thought I was losing my mind, but hey, I was getting great mileage!
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u/Drohka 22h ago
I’m averaging 15.5 kWh/100km though the winter it will climb above 20 I’m sure…
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u/minnick27 15h ago
I was absolutely amazed at how much the cold weather affects battery life. Last summer I bought an electric car and did a roughly 200 mile round-trip and used 80% of my battery. I did the same exact trip in January and used 60% just getting to the city. Fortunately, I was able to park in a garage that had a charger. But it really made me rethink longer trips with this thing.
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u/triviumsport 1d ago
I read that as MPH. Took me a second to figure out the smile part.
Congrats. I miss my Prius. Loved the gas mileage.
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u/Medical-Ad226 1d ago
read it as metres per gallon for a sec, that would be awful X) but yeah looks good!
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u/Thomppa26 19h ago
I wish my car did not consume as much fuel as it does. Well being an early 2000s car, it's kinda normal to have 10 liters per 100 km, about 24 mpg.
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u/TheFreshHorn 15h ago
Hyundai Tucson? Yeah 45 is pretty good. You might get even better if you drive in eco mode.
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u/Crazy_old_maurice_17 12h ago
That's pretty good! I typically get ~40 in my old Prius. One time I was curious just how good it could be so right after filling up the tank I drove super easy on my way to/from work (I think I went 55mph on the highway and everyone hated me) and I managed 64mpg. I have a photo of the car's display but it doesn't seem like I can post it in this subreddit. :-/
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u/LumberJesus 12h ago
My new shitbox still only averages like 20-25mpg, but feels like it doesn't use any after driving something that got 10 on a good day for 2 years.
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u/aris7019 10h ago
the other day i got an average of 60 in my hybrid while driving around my hometown, it’s such a great feeling 😍😍😍
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u/Grep2grok 9h ago
I have an EV and average negative mileage going into town. Going back to the house though, that half is carnage
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u/Infinity_Cuber 8h ago
Look for everyone in the comments that’s feigning confusion to feel superior. Yes this is a US based post. Yes the US car market is shit when it comes to gas mileage. This is actually pretty impressive here when most vehicles on the road are only realistically getting 20-30 on a good day. Just let the man be happy about something
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u/Gramerdim 8h ago
are we just karma farming the most mundane thing?
I'd get it if it was a funny number but this!?
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u/Soulcatch3r 6h ago
I came back to this post, because 45mpg didnt sound that great to me either. (I had to transform it into km/l which was something like 20km/l, or 100km/5l) Our pretty new car ( bought like 3 years ago) gets to 3,6l/100km. But I guess 45mpg is good for american standards as I read 12mpg or 23mpg in this thread... the difference in fuel efficiency is insane to me.
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u/I_-AM-ARNAV 23h ago
i get the same mileage, the only problem is this is on 91 octane/ethanol 20% fuel. earlier i could do 23kmpl easily
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u/Steelringin 18h ago
Is that good? Asking for those of us freedom-haters who use L/100km to measure fuel economy.
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u/Steelringin 18h ago
I'm assuming that you're American and this is in US gallons but maybe it's ik UK gallons so I don't know which formula to use to convert it.
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u/JJJ_177 23h ago
I’m in America.
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u/According_Button_186 22h ago
Oh, sorry everyone in the comments was breaking it down in liters and shit. Are newer cars really this fuel efficient? I literally am driving a 2013 fusion, my mileage is ass.
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u/kezinchara 15h ago
This is what we’re upvoting nowadays?
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u/Delicious_Pain_1 13h ago
The most I've ever had is like 16mpg. My truck now It doesn't tell me. My O2 sensors are shot, one O2 sensor is literally welded on making it so I can't replace any without getting it fixed properly. It's just exciting seeing someone else's excitement too.
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