Happy New Year! I still use Fuelly.com to track my fuel consumption. Here are the results of my driving in 2020:
- I refueled 6 times.
- The average distance I drove between fill-ups was 908.4 km (564.4 miles).
- The average price I paid per litre of diesel was $1.03 ($3.89 per US gallon).
- The total distance tracked in 2020 was 5 450km (3 387 miles).
- To drive that distance, I used 329.49 litres of fuel (87.04 US gallons).
- I spent an average of $56.34 for each refuel.
- I spent a total of $338.04 on fuel.
- That works out to 6¢ per kilometre (10¢ per mile).
- My average fuel economy for the year was 6.0 litres/100 km (38.9 MPG).
Taking it a bit further, 6 fill-ups in 12 months averages out to a fill-up every two months. A pandemic certainly helps cut down on the driving!
Over this year, I’ve noted that my fuel economy, or specifically, the distance I can drive per tank of fuel has been increasing. To whit, I would typically reach 800 km per tank about 75% of the time. Now I find I’m reaching 900 km per tank about half the time. When I bought the car I recall being told that fuel economy would get better and better until the car was fully broken in at around 160 000 km, and I’m less than 1 000 km away from that mark! I didn’t believe it at the time but it seems to be absolutely true.