Dod101 wrote:Hallucigenia wrote:No need to look at limited anecdote when you have ONS stats available.
Average annual mileage in 2019 was 7,400miles - down from 9,200 in 2002. So 142 miles (230km) per week. If you say that the average UK car has fuel consumption similar to the average new car 7 years ago, that's 5.4 litres per 100km (53mpg). So on average a car gets through 12.3 litres per week, and has a fuel tank of maybe 50 litres?
So the average UK car fills up once every 4 weeks, but obviously there's huge variation in that.
It's interesting to see how improving fuel efficiency and less driving per car has halved consumption per car over the last 20 years - the average car would have been doing 285km/week at a fuel consumption of 8.3l/100km (34mpg) for 23.6 litres per week.
These are interesting figures. Presumably the 53 MPG is mostly diesel. My petrol car gets no where near that, but interestingly my annual mileage has been about the average of 7,000 or so for the last couple of years, but will probably rise a bit this year.
Dod
The 5.4 litres per 100km is for petrol cars, diesels are 5.0, but they are the imaginary MPG figures published by manufacturers - https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j ... tFjXvWOlli
"These figures are obtained under consistent, carefully controlled laboratory conditions and do not refect external factors such as cold starts, differing driving conditions, different loads, carried, etc."
These are the MPG figures obtained when you have 'heat soaked' the car at 25c overnight and then driven it on a rolling road on a set but very unrealistic course with virtually no acceleration - and that is assuming you haven't bought a VW who has done something 'clever' with the car's systems to produce a better result.
