How Can I Make My Gas Mileage Calculator Program Into Methods I Really Don

What is the best way to calculate vehicle mileage?

First do a full tank .. by full tank what I mean is up to the point where the petrol bunk fuel nossil automatically cuts off . Don't try to fill it to the neck as the petrol bunk guys do it in which case you will not be accurate . Now reset the trip meter immediately or take a note of the odometer reading.Now drive around till your tank gets empty or almost empty and now again do a full tank till the fuel nossil automatically cuts off and stop right there again don't add fuel till the neck. Make a note of the fuel in liters what you have put just now and say you added “x” liters . Now go back to the trip meter reading and let's say you have driven “y” kilometers .So here you have an accurate milage y/x kmpl.For much more accurate results do the full tank always in the morning as it's cold and your fuel density will be higher and almost constant in subsequent fillings .

Why don't gas gauges accurately reflect the amount of gas in the tank of a car?

Measuring the volume of a liquid that is constantly sloshing around and subject to a slow but variable draining, is difficult. The amount indicated on your gauge is an average of averages of some really jumpy-ass signals from a bunch of sensors.To compound the problem, the user base is stupid, prone to making goofy inferences about how your product works based on rumor and rudimentary knowledge, mistrustful of anything you say, and stubbornly cost-sensitive and time-inflexible when it comes to purchasing said gasoline. It might as well be magic to most of them, and they're a bunch of damn Muggles trying to scare off a bear when a simple shotgun and some common sense would have done the trick.Sticklers who calculate their gas mileage know the most effective way is to do it per fill-up, not on the fly, so you don't have to worry about them. And you're just left with the idiots.At this point, most people know that their car has a reserve after the gauge shows empty, but very few of them know quite how much because the numbers aren't published. This isn't corporate secrecy-turned-paranoia, it's intentional. If the dumb fuckers are too cheap or stupid to fill up when you've told them to, you've given them a lifeline, but they're on their own after that. Keeping them guessing is just a way to make sure they don't come bitching when it was their own dumb fault.

When I calculate MPG myself, do I take the mileage from its full to when the gas light comes or to when the gas tank is completely empty?

There’s a fairly large unknown as to exactly how much is left at each point you suggest as well as an inconvenience in being at the gas station exactly when it happens..The best way to check fuel is to fill the tank one day until the auto cutoff clicks. Don’t add any more. Record the odometer miles, M1.At your next fuel fill, fill the tank again until the autocutoff clicks. If the autocutoff works at about the same point (when the fuel backs up the fill pipe and trips the backpressure sensor int he nozzle) then you have filled the tank to the same point as the last fill. The amount it took on this fill (G2) is the fuel used since the last fill.Record the odometer miles at this fillup, M2. The number of miles travelled with that gasoline is M2-M1.Your fuel economy since the last fill will beF.E. (mpg) = (M2-M1)/G2That’s because you drove M2-M1 miles using G2 gallons of gasoline. This will be fairly accurate. On my car its a bit worse than the MPG reported by the trip computer but then the spedometers are off by about 5% slow (compared to what should be very accurate GPS speeds) so I think the distances are a bit off.If you do it on successive fillups, the third fillup is G3 and at M3 and the fuel economy for that leg is (M3-M2)/G3. If you keep a table its an easy excel sheet to make using replicated relative formulaes.Hope that helps.

How do you personally calculate the mileage of your car/bike?

Hi Jay Jojo, thanks for the A2A.Is calculating the mileage important to you?If you are one of those hard-working Indians, I think you should care about it.But If you happen to be a spoiled rich brat, then you don't have to worry about it.Now coming back to the topic.Firstly, there are many videos and tutorials available on YouTube which can guide you to check your mileage.Or you can follow the steps and check it yourself:Suppose you have to ride 10 kms daily to commute from your work or college to home.Take a liter of fuel in a 1 Liter bottle. Drain all the fuel from your fuel tank and carburetor.Remember, this will give you a rough estimate of mileage and not exactly pin point.Fill 100 ml of fuel in the tank and Start riding it. Note the readings before adding the fuel and after once the fuel is over.You will get the mileage of your bike per 100 ml. You can multiply it with 10 to get the mileage per liter.Try not to accelerator unnecessarily hard during your ride, do not over speed or quickly up shift and down shift gears. If you are riding properly, you will automatically get the optimum mileage.I'll tell you the mileage I'm getting from my vehicles.Hero Honda CD Dawn 2003 model - 70–75 kmpl.Yamaha fz 16 2009 model - 48–52 kmplBajaj Pulsar 2014 model - 42–46 kmplRoyal Enfield Classic 350 black 2016 - 50–52 kmpl (Stock Exhaust)Royal Enfield Classic 350 white 2016 - 46–50 kmpl (Curved exhaust)Hyundai i10 2011 model - 16–18 kmpl without AC, 14–15 kmpl with AC.WagonR 2006 model - 19–20 kmpl.

What is the actual mileage of XUV 500?

I used a XUV5oo for a brief period of 3 months. I used it for my daily 120kms commute in Delhi-NCR traffic. The fuel efficiency was around 11kmpl.PS: I subsequently shifted back to my Nissan Terrano which offers me 20+ kmpl without AC and around 17.5 kmpl with AC, route is Ghaziabad-Gurgaon.

I have a car that measures my fuel economy so the "game" now is to the get the highest miles per gallon. What is the best method of driving that will save me the most gas in highway, street and stop-and-go traffic?

I love this game!  The trick is to spend as much time in "Electric Vehicle (EV) Mode" as possible and to utilize your regenerative charging feature as effectively as possible.Off the line you will find the engine to propel you initially unless you are going at a very low speed.  The trick is when you reach an optimal cruising speed to let off the accelerator until you see the "EV Mode" switch on (in the Ford's the color turns from white to blue).  At this point you can feather the accelerator to stay within the EV mode to stay on pure electric for your propulsion.  The more you do this the better.  Don't worry about the people behind you aggravated you are going slower than usual...you are saving fuel!  On the highway make sure you have your settings on "Eco Cruise" so you use the battery assist more predominately instead of keeping a set speed.  The trick to maximize your regenerative charging (where you take the kinetic energy from braking and put it back into the battery) is to brake slowly and not so fast!Happy driving!

Do Canadians really measure car efficiency in liters per kilometer?

We do. And it’s an excellent method of quickly calculating fuel needs for a long distance trip. If my vacation requires me to drive 1,000 km’s and my car burns 8 liters per 100 kilometers, pretty easy to figure out I need at least 80 liters of fuel!As long as you are capable of doing grade school multiplication and dividing, the calculations come pretty easy. It’s best advantage, if you know the quantity of fuel the tank carries when full. So if I have a 50 liter fuel tank and my estimated fuel economy is 8 liters per 100 kilometers then I know I can drive 625 kilometers before refueling. (50/8 = 62.5 x 100) Once those known parameters are memorized, it’s pretty hard to run out of fuel if you use your trip odometer correctly and manage how you drive.There’s nothing wrong with using miles per gallon or kilometer per liter, but one, the numbers are small and two, when attempting to calculate fuel required for a length of trip, the math is simply more cumbersome. It’s not difficult, just more messy.My 8 liters per 100 kilometers converts to 0.08 liters per kilometer (KPL). So that simply becomes 625 kilometers divided by .08 liters per kilometer still equals 50 liters of fuel required. So why make a decimal exercise when whole numbers make it easier to calculate fuel and distance calculations. We’re not alone, all of Europe and Asia use the same method. In the UK, they use both mpg and metric.