Anyone have that figured out?

In Canada mileage is quoted at litres per 100 kilometers driven.
I have no idea how to convert that to miles per gallon.

Our hybrid gets 5.9 liters per 100 km which equals

47.9 miles per imperal gallon --- or

39.9 miles per US gallon

Here is a link to a calculation site for conversion

https://www.calculateme.com/gas-mileage/liters-per-100-km-to-us-mpg

Thanks All.

4.54 litres is one imperial gallon
1 km equals 1000 meres.

My question is this ------ How far is it from here to there?

Distance is often quoted in hours.

How many quarts to the minute? That clears it up for me, but how do we get a metric conversion?

Shootist, you must be a city boy. chuckle. As in " The next town is close, only an hour's drive away. "

What exactly are these keelomeeters of which you speak. Liters I know from reading the labels on rum bottles.

I remember the confusion when Canada switched to the metric system. My grandpa always said senseless instead of celcius.. Its 32 degrees sensless, then we try to figure how much that was in english, we just knew it was hot. Roadsign would say 171 kilometers to the next town, we'd look at each other wondering how far that was. Then he got the little round kilometer stickers to put over mph numbers on the speedomotor glass so he could tell approximately how fast he was going. lol

He blamed it on the Frogs.(french) "Pretty soon they will be making us speak french" he would say.

I was teenager working in a grocery store at the time. Everything on the shelves got smaller and cost more. Lot of disgruntled people.

“Everything on the shelves got smaller and cost more. “
Sounds like they’re using that old trick in the current inflation …

$/100 km gives me a clearer picture of the fuel cost of a trip where distances and costs are logged

A liter is a FUpped quart.
i can multiply by 6 an move the decimal in my head.


Celsius is impossible.
O means the roads might freeze, other than that it means nothing sensible.

Metric is a better system by far over imperial. I think most of us can divide by ten and get a correct answer. It's that simple.

The problem is that our wonderful gov't here in Canada allowed the use of both systems and made if far more confusing that it needs to be. We build our houses in feet and inches and buy our fuel in liters. We measure our weather temps in Celsius and bake our cakes in Fahrenheit If we had gone full metric way back in the late 70s, we'd be far better off now.

Yeah, the metric system is a great aid for those who have trouble with math.
Let's take an acre, for instance. A fine measurement rooted in practicality. 1 rod by ten rods. The amount of land which be ploughed by one man with a good team in day. Contrast that with a hectare. Where do the man and his team fit into that? The mental exertion required to convert fractions of inches inches into decimal measurements kept a machinist sharp. Metric measurements make him lazy.
When Canada first went metric, I actually had guys who would call up and say they needed a front sight about 7.7 mm high. I would tell them not to bother me until they knew what height they wanted. GD

SuperCub;
Morning my friend, I hope that the week has gone well and you all are similarly also that way.

If I can be offered a wee bit of latitude, I'm going to gently differ with your statement that a full conversion would have been better.

Where I grew up in Saskatchewan, the entire southern third is laid out in miles with the main roads, grid roads and correction line roads which ran north/south on the Manitoba border all in miles. Then too as mentioned the land is surveyed in miles, sections and quarter sections.

Unless one was going to somehow start the entire road and land survey system over from scratch, there would always be conversions taking place.

With apologies for repeating this, but in the 3 decades plus where I worked in the cabinet making industry, the machines were mainly European so the setup was all metric.

As you noted we'd take the house measurements in inches, then convert that to metric for shop documents - holding the width and height tolerances to less than 0.5mm - and hopefully have those cabinets fit back into the house which was built with standard measure materials.

While I'm now somewhat converted to outside temperatures in Celsius, somehow the inside temp has to be Fahrenheit to make sense to me.

Baking and cooking thermometers are definitely still Fahrenheit at our house too.

Lastly, on my wife's SUV the fuel consumption readout is liters per hundred kilometers and it makes sense to me, but so help me on my '03 Ram pickup which is a US model so has miles on the odometer, I'm still converting fuel consumption into miles per Imperial gallon to have it make any sense whatsoever in my old guy brain.

Such is life for this boomer anyways..

All the best and good hunting SuperCub.

Dwayne

Hey Dwayne .... All is well here. Working long hours in the local refinery on a shutdown so not much life for another couple weeks.

Sounds like aside from the layout of the grid in Sask, you agree with me.

This is one of the things the USA agreed to adopt and then reneged on.

Jim

Well this morning I had a 500 ml coffee and got about 240 Km's before the empty the tank light came on

Metric is the beans for calculations, even I use it for sausage recipes.

Based on 10 pound batches.

Then if I have 18 pounds of meat, 1.8 x everything in grams is easy.

But for actual use, it depends.

53'x 102" or 40 x 52 building?

You gotta learn to think in something, feet and inches are much better for building.

2x4 is easy. 50 x 100?
Except instead of 11/2×3 1/2
37.5×87.5?

Easy of calculation isn't the same as practice use.

I was around as a young person with the introduction of the metric system in Canada. I have a foot in both systems and tread carefully along the way. I’m fine with temperatures in Celsius, but litres per 100 kms mean little to me. I frame walls using inches and won’t change. A litre is almost a quart and a pound is almost half a kilogram. I’ll survive.

Nick

When I was learning, this helped me. You only have to remember five equations.

0c = 32f
10c=50f
20c=68f
30c=86f
5 degrees Celsius = 9 degrees Fahrenheit.

So you're listening to the radio and they say it's 15c. You know that 10c = 50f. Plus 9 for the other 5c equals 59f.

What’s a long ton?

A metric ton is 1000 kilos, 2200 lb . I think that's what long ton is.

A long ton is an English (imperial) measurement and is 2240 pounds. Equal to twenty long hundredweight, which is eight stone or 112 pounds. Much of the old Imperial system truly makes no sense at all! We had an English schoolteacher for third grade (in northern B.C.) who tried to teach us this stuff. In spite of our best efforts to slough it off, some of it stuck. The poor teacher had her work cut out for her when she tried to teach proper English to boys from Texas and Oklahoma, or even Idaho! GD