What's your fuel economy to weight ratio?
 

JanGeo just posted an inspired question in response to my 100+ segment:

He asked how many MPG per pound it worked out to.

What a great question. Speed performance enthusiasts love to talk power to weight ratios. So why wouldn't efficiency performance enthusiasts compare MPG to weight ratios? (Aside from the fact that one ratio is a set of fixed numbers and the second ratio isn't, necessarily...)

FYI, my 3 month (3 tank) average is currently 59.3 (US). The car weighs 1830 lbs.

Edit: instead of the original suggestion of mpg/weight we're going with this formula...

vehicle weight (lbs) * MPG / 1000

... to get "pound miles per gallon (/1000)"

1800# * 59.3 / 1000 = 108.519 for the Blackfly

What's yours?

My 3 month avgerage 34.4. Car weighs 3950.

That's .0087 I need to carry a lot of decimals.

:)

I added a digit to my ratio. I suspect 4 decimal places will work for most.

would the measure of efficiency be the mpg multiplied by the weight then divided by some constant? the efficiency to weight ratio doesnt really say anything...

see:
with driver:
40/2300 = .01739
without:
40/2130 = .01878

and are we doing this with or without the driver?

anyway i think we should divide by 1000. its funny cus now you cant call it a ratio. product?? haha the efficiency to weight product.

with driver:
40*2300/1000 = 92
without:
40*2130/1000 = 85.2

My average is 32.2 My cars weight is 2350

That is .0137

Mine's about 2500 lbs, and my last 5 tanks average 39.8.

However, I think it should be multiplied, not divided. A semi getting 100 mpg should be more impressive than a metro, but the ratio would be lower.

The result would be in pound-miles per gallon.

did anyone read my post??? what the piss?

Actually power to weight is done differently. It's the biggest number divided by the smaller number. My car is 2990 lbs and my hp is 150. So that equals to 19.93

But I like your method of MPG because your number increases as the MPG.
I'll play along.

BEFORE starting mpg gig:
24mpg and 2990 lb car = .0080

AFTER starting mpg gig:
29.92mpg and 2965 lb car = .0100

So mine is

56.5/2200=0.0257.

But the number gets higher if your weight is lower. From reading JanGeo's original comment, he was trying to show that you should get more credit for having a heavier car. My immediate thoughjt would be weight/FE, not the other way around.

So in my case, 2200/56.5= 38.94.

But if I were able to get 56.5 MPG in a 3000 lb car, the number would be 53.10, which would give a higher score to someone who did the same with more weight.

I dunno, just my backwards way of thinking.....

I think Metro's number system is better because it increase with fuel economy. The other option makes the number go down and it's confusing. But, we all know it doesn't matter how much your car weighs, it's the MPG that counts.