@kezo I think we are now in violent agreement
We are now less than 0.5mpg apart and that’s because I used your petrol cost as £1.37 a litre and you used £1.39. It all looks positive. When I get ours next week I’m going to keep a log of how much fuel I buy and how many times I charge it and work out an accurate cost per mile, and then work that back to an accurate ‘true’ mpg equivalent allowing for the charging costs. I need to satisfy myself that it’s going to be cheaper to run than the (albeit very economical) BMW, so that I’m not going to get irritated by having to charge it after each use rather than just do a 5 minute petrol stop every 3 weeks or so as I do with the BMW
We are now less than 0.5mpg apart and that’s because I used your petrol cost as £1.37 a litre and you used £1.39. It all looks positive. When I get ours next week I’m going to keep a log of how much fuel I buy and how many times I charge it and work out an accurate cost per mile, and then work that back to an accurate ‘true’ mpg equivalent allowing for the charging costs. I need to satisfy myself that it’s going to be cheaper to run than the (albeit very economical) BMW, so that I’m not going to get irritated by having to charge it after each use rather than just do a 5 minute petrol stop every 3 weeks or so as I do with the BMW Using @Oscarmax ‘s calculation for mpg, it came out as 56.1 mpg over 349 miles. If you can acheive that, I’m sure you will be happy.
However, I don’t fully get how you can add two very different fuels at vastly different prices all into litres and then gallons but he’s the expert.
On the otherhand, I fully got how he was working out pence per mile, by adding the 2 costs together and dividing that by the number of miles, as I have been doing which works out at 11.2p a mile.
I think for now especially, I will go the easy route to get pence per mile, at least till I can do a spreadsheet, because its fecking doing my head in 😂
I go back up a week on Saturday and will see how figures compare. I may even try a more relaxed drive but, every time I tell myself that, it never happens lol.
More importantly, how many pages have you read and are you getting the gist of things?
P.S Yup, I realised my error with petrol price l, The second hyperthetical calculation, I did with cheap electricity and 1.37 returned some decent intersting figurers. However if you take into account the increased day rate on these two rate tariffs, for the same 349 miles, the pence per mile is only 1.5p cheaper but, mpg was 60!
