Mile Per Liter (mi/L)
Miles traveled on one liter of fuel.
1 mile per liter = 1.609344 kilometers per liter (exactly).
About the mile per liter
Where cars are sold with distances in miles and fuel in liters, the natural measure of efficiency is miles per liter. It is a hybrid of the two systems, and the sources consulted do not show it as a standard labelling unit. Metric countries normally quote liters per 100 kilometers or kilometers per liter, while the United States uses miles per US gallon and the United Kingdom still quotes miles per imperial gallon.
Converting is straightforward because a mile is defined as exactly 1.609344 kilometers, so one mile per liter equals 1.609344 kilometers per liter. In the other direction, one kilometer per liter is about 0.621 miles per liter. Against gallon-based figures the multiplier is the gallon size: an imperial gallon is 4.54609 liters, so one mile per liter is about 4.546 miles per imperial gallon, and the US gallon of about 3.785 liters gives about 3.785 miles per US gallon. A car that returns 10 miles per liter would therefore cover roughly 45 miles on an imperial gallon, and in the usual metric form it would burn 100 divided by 16.09, or just over 6.2 liters per 100 kilometers.
Sources: Wikipedia: Fuel economy in automobiles; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8 conversion factors
Mile Per Liter conversion chart
10 miles per liter expressed in every other fuel economy unit:
| Unit | 10 miles per liter |
|---|---|
| Km/L | 16.09344 |
| MPG (US) | 37.85411784 |
| MPG (UK) | 45.4609 |
| L/100 Km | 6.213711922 |
| Gal/100 Mi (US) | 2.641720524 |
| Gal/100 Mi (UK) | 2.199692483 |
| L/mil | 0.6213711922 |
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