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I never expected to see $10/gallon (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 5 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I was exaggerating with the 5 MPG, I didn't expect it to be so damn low as 15 MPG. That's... Converting to lt/km that would be around 15lt per 100 kms! Damn... Not sure about average consumptions in Europe, since I drive an electric and never had an ICE but I think the average goes to around 5-6lt per 100km so that's 3 times as much. Wow...

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

    I have been told that 14 mpgs is really good for a truck (my 1986 c20 does a bit better and its a v8 and carboratred). They are not little guys, and in this part of Canada you have more trucks on the road then just about any other type, most with one person in them and nothing in the back. At least I try to only use my truck when needing to haul yard waste or something to much for my little car, but next door has 3 trucks for 2 people.

    7 to 8 Lt per 100km is about normal here (depending on what you drive) in non trucks but for years people here relate success with a big truck.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I guess that's what happens when you have cheap-ass gas prices. Efficiency is just not needed. Well, if anything, this will help people understand how convenient is an EV. I drive 60km a day for my commute and it costs me 2.4โ‚ฌ of electricity, and that's considering Italy's electricity prices are not among the lowest in Europe. With such a beast here, I'd go for around 15-16โ‚ฌ a day. Yeah, not happening ever, lol

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 month ago

    Oh it was needed here, but activly pushed into clown world numbers of inefficientcies. We have had cars that are very good on gas, now we have cars that say they are good on gas but use 3x what a car from the past would do. Its all marketing over function now and our auto industry is effectively dead due to it, people are (shocker) not buying enough $100,000 trucks that cost $10 in gas to go to the store.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Well if you are using it for work at least its just a business expense so its easier to justify the cost of something large. For recreational use it would be stupid.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I never got this idea. If you have a business then having waste in that business is going to hurt just as much if it was your personal truck. Most places don't need a truck and those that do tend to get vans instead (think plumbers). And at least here the biggest ones are just for recreation since they have to pull their 1500sq foot 5th wheel.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Depends what someone is doing. Van or flatbed truck having different use cases.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago

    Yes, but (at least here) there a not that many flatbed uses for the silly small bed large trucks that are all over. Lots of 1 ton and over flatbed trucks doing work, a few welders like those trucks for work. The massive trucks with tiny beds are not really meant to be work anything, they are just large passenger vehicles.

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