Engine options for turbos [more inside]
posted by rem83 to Fuelly Site Issues at 8:37 AM March 26 - 1 comment

After hooking up my scangauge, I noticed that my car uses up roughly 20% more fuel idling in drive than it does in neutral, once everything is up to operating temperature. Ultimately, this is an increase of ~0.07 gallons per hour, which means that over 14.3 hours of idling, I'd use up an extra gallon of gas. This is pretty insignificant (about 18 cents extra gas per hour of idling), but I still thought it was interesting how much extra drag the torque converter exerts on the drivetrain at idle.
posted by rem83 to Fuel Talk at 7:17 AM January 15 - 10 comments

Most people will probably find this to be a useless feature, but I think it'd be cool to be able to see my personal average MPG, calculated as total miles driven across all of my vehicles divided by total gas consumed. It would also be nice to use this to calculate a total carbon footprint, although not sure if that would require the ability to specify grade of fuel used.
posted by rem83 to Fuelly Site Issues at 7:48 AM November 6 - 1 comment