{"id":261833,"date":"2018-08-04T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=261833"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:26:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:26:14","slug":"the-best-way-to-calculate-your-cars-fuel-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/261833\/the-best-way-to-calculate-your-cars-fuel-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"The best way to calculate your car\u2019s fuel consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the petrol price continuing to rise, it is well worth it to know how to calculate your car\u2019s fuel efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to to the Automobile Association (AA), which notes that calculating your fuel efficiency allows you to budget more accurately, and also make some improvements to how you drive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is estimated 8% more fuel can be used on a return intercity trip when air conditioning is used for most of the journey,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In hot summer months, this can most definitely affect your fuel consumption negatively, especially when you\u2019re sitting in peak-time traffic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It added that the following factors could affect your car\u2019s fuel consumption:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Irregular servicing<\/li>\n<li>Under-inflated tyres<\/li>\n<li>Air conditioning<\/li>\n<li>Traffic density<\/li>\n<li>Air temperature<\/li>\n<li>Humidity<\/li>\n<li>The way you drive your car<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Calculating your car\u2019s fuel consumption<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To make sure the numbers are as accurate as possible when calculating fuel consumption, the AA outlined the following steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fill up your car until the self-trigger mechanism clicks (work from a full tank).<\/li>\n<li>Zero your trip meter.<\/li>\n<li>Drive your car like you normally do &#8211; to work and back, on highways or arterial roads, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Drive for around 400 km.<\/li>\n<li>Full up your tank again.<\/li>\n<li>Write down your distance travelled, and litres of fuel used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Now, you\u2019ll be able to calculate your car\u2019s efficiency, based on how you normally drive,&#8221; the AA said.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Divide the distance travelled by the litres used and you will get the km\/litre.<\/li>\n<li>To convert km\/litre to litres\/100 km &#8211; divide 100 by km\/litre.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;For the most accurate results, we recommend doing this test twice and comparing results, bearing in mind traffic flow, weather conditions, and if you made any changes to how you drive,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/261401\/scrapping-fuel-taxes-not-the-solution-aa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scrapping fuel \u2018taxes\u2019 not the solution: AA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the petrol price continuing to rise, it is well worth it to know how to calculate your car\u2019s fuel efficiency without &#8216;guesstimating&#8217;, says the AA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":260919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[6926,26],"class_list":["post-261833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-aa","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261833"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261855,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261833\/revisions\/261855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}