Learn to Calculate Your Car’s Fuel Efficiency (MPG)

Sunday, July 27th, 2008 at 12:00 am

Fuel efficiency is a very important factor especially when the price of fuel is hitting the roof. There are many benefits of knowing your car MPG or fuel efficiency as you will get to calculate how much rise of the gas price and determine is the gas guzzler eating up your money.

Follow these steps to calculate your car MPG:

1. Fill up the tank at gas station.

2. Record the mileage before you drive away. This will be known as Mileage A.

3. When the fuel tank is less than half, fill up the tank again but check how many gallons it takes to fill up the tank.

4. Record the mileage again. and it will be known as Mileage B.

5. Subtract Mileage A from Mileage B to get the number of miles since you last fill up.

6. Divide the number with the amount of gallons to fill up the tank second time.

7. You get your MPG.