2006-12-17 19:29:30 · 10 answers · asked by jackie2006 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
Map out the total distance, and calculate your vehicle's fuel
economy, then calculate the average fuel cost throughout
the trip -and voila!
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2006-12-17 20:53:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fuel only is easy - you must have the average consumption of you vehicle (miles/gallon or kilometers/litre). Take the distance of your journey and devide it with the average consumption and you will get the quantity of fuel you will use. Times this with the ruling fuel price and you will get a good indication of the fuel cost for the journey.
My experience is that the fuel cost is actually not the most costly item on a journey. What usually break the bank is the unforseen costs. You can take a bet that there will be something which you didn't budget for that will happen. So whatever your budget cost is for the journey, ADD 10%. If you get back home with change in your pocket, be happy.
2006-12-17 19:44:11 · answer #2 · answered by Francois J V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you know the distance and the mpg of the car that you'll be driving you can guestimate it from there. Obviously the type of road has an effect as well, cars use more fuel in stop start urban driving than free flowing roads, so you could refine your calculation to take account of that, but it will always be an estimate never entirely accurate there are too many variables to be entirely accurate.
2006-12-17 19:38:02 · answer #3 · answered by strawman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good way of finding this put is to fill the tank up (but it its already half full, then fill the other half) then note how much it cost you for the hal tank. Then put your mileag log to '0' and if it goes down a quarter of the way, share the total amount by 4, then you will have the way to figure out the cost oer mile, etc
2006-12-18 00:21:15 · answer #4 · answered by charmedandwelsh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to know the total distance, and the car's consumption per mile. The former can be got by inspecting a map, or (in the US) by using a mapping service such as mapquest.com. The latter figure you probably know from experience or published data. A simple multiplication gives the answer.
2006-12-17 19:36:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending your car's perfomance and fuel consumption.
a 6 cylinder sedan car would consume 1 liter every 7.5 km
a 6 cylinder 4WD consumes about 1 liter every 5 km
smaller car with 4 cylinders would reach up to 1 litere every 10 km
bigger cars (Big SUVs, large 8 cylinders) would consume as much as 1 liter every 4 or even 3 kilometers
(Note 1 mile = 1.6 km and 1 gallon = 4.1 liters)
2006-12-18 00:15:12 · answer #6 · answered by pickup_lb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Multiply the time in hours by 2 to get mpg, if you get 35mpg at 75mph, by 1 1/2 if you get 50 mpg etc, becaue efficiency rises with speed consumption is time related, even stuck in a traffic jam uses up to 1/2 gallon per hour.
2006-12-18 06:36:36 · answer #7 · answered by "Call me Dave" 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AArouteplanner.co.uk is really good to know the total distance for your journey, it gives you it in miles, then depending on how much fuel your car eats, work it out from there!
2006-12-17 19:37:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first you need to know how many miles it is. Second you need to know how much a gallon of gas is. Then you multiply the cost of a gallon of gas by how many miles you're going to drive and the answer is the total cost of money you will spend on gas.
2006-12-18 01:18:06 · answer #9 · answered by ☺#1 Packers Fan☺ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This website has the facility to tell you the costs if you input the type of car and cost of petrol in the options part. Then do a route plan hope it helps. http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichelin/gbr/tpl/hme/MaHomePage.htm
2006-12-17 19:42:01 · answer #10 · answered by sally h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋