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[–] Cooljimy84 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Wait that's still the mpg in the us ? That's the same gallon we use in the uk ? (As I learnt the a us gallon can be different when talking about whisky or some thing along those lines...)

[–] mean_bean279 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are different standards, 100%! I hate that MPG in both English speaking countries means two different things. It’s like how Americas horsepower number is different than Britains. I feel bad for Canada too who’s caught between British units and American Units, and that’s before being dragged into the metric vs imperial. It’s unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Eh, we Canadians officially use L/100km, which just make so much more sense to compare fuel efficiency. MPG can be so misleading.

[–] mean_bean279 6 points 4 months ago

Correct, but you use imperial units for home building. Which I imagine is annoying and confusing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Different gallons. One US gallon is 0.832674 UK gallons, or 3.785412 liters.

[–] bitchkat 3 points 4 months ago

An imperial gallon is slightly bigger than a US gallon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

UK mpg are different than US mpg, it looks like 1 mpg US is ~1.2 mpg UK