Km/L to L/mil
1 kilometer per liter equals 10 liters per mil.
How to convert kilometers per liter to liters per mil
Converting kilometers per liter to liters per mil is not a simple multiplication, so use the formula below.
liters per mil = 10 ÷ kilometers per liter
Example: 10 kilometers per liter = 1 liter per mil.
Miles per gallon rises as a car gets more efficient, while liters per 100 km falls. The conversion between them is a reciprocal (for US mpg: L/100 km = 235.215 ÷ mpg).
About these units
Kilometer Per Liter (km/L)
Distance traveled on one liter of fuel. The standard way to quote fuel economy in India, Japan, Brazil and much of Asia.
Kilometres per litre is the most literal way to ask how far a car goes on a given amount of fuel. It is a direct measure of fuel economy, so higher is better, and it sits between the two systems that dominate the world: miles per gallon and litres per 100 km. The sources I found do not credit any specific inventor or date for it; it is simply the metric counterpart to miles per gallon, formed by dividing distance by volume in the units a country already used for roads and fuel.
Wikipedia lists India, Japan and South Korea among the places that quote economy in km/L. A conversion shows how it relates to US figures: 1 km/L is about 2.35 mpg (US), so 10 km/L is roughly 23.5 mpg (US), in the same range as the average new US vehicle of the 2020 model year, which was about 25.4 mpg. The Levant has its own variant, kilometres per 20 litres, based on the size of a common fuel container called a tanaka.
The kilometer per liter is the reference unit for fuel economy on this site.
Sources: Wikipedia: Fuel economy in automobiles; Wikipedia: Imperial gallon
Liter Per Mil (L/mil)
Liters used per 10 km (one Scandinavian 'mil'). Swedish and Norwegian drivers quote fuel use in liters per mil.
Fuel economy in Sweden and Norway is traditionally given as the number of liters burned per mil, the Scandinavian unit of 10 kilometers. That makes it a cousin of the European liters per 100 kilometers figure, just one tenth as large: 0.6 liters per mil is the same as 6 liters per 100 kilometers.
Like consumption figures elsewhere, it counts fuel per distance, so a lower number means a thriftier car. This is the reverse of kilometers per liter or miles per gallon, which count distance per fuel, so a conversion has to invert the value rather than scale it.
The unit survives because the mil itself survives in everyday Scandinavian speech, even though kilometers appear on road signs. Writers there still use it in casual talk about cars, alongside odometer readings quoted in mil.
1 liter per mil = 10 kilometers per liter (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Scandinavian mile
Related conversions
- L/mil to km/L (reverse)
- Km/L to MPG (US)
- Km/L to MPG (UK)
- Km/L to L/100 km
- Km/L to mi/L
- Km/L to gal/100 mi (US)
- Km/L to gal/100 mi (UK)
- MPG (US) to L/mil
- MPG (UK) to L/mil
- L/100 km to L/mil
See all fuel economy units.