0-27mph (30knots) is 10,800 secs (can be less if the depth under the keel is more than 30m ) 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

F**k me have you worked out the equivalent MPG on that monster?

TPD at full chat about 450 but we rarely go that fast these days, my ship alone save $12 million on the fuel bill last year by reducing the schedule speed from 25 to 18knots fuel consumption dropped from 400tonnes per day to 85! We were able to maintain the schedule because the company added a ninth ship to the service and slowed us all down and still saved money. Imagine the savings that were made when this is applied go 150 ships with this engine within our fleet........... Then the rest of the 300 or so ships in the fleet also got slowed down to save even more fuel. BUT year end profits were still not good enough for the company owner (Maersk is privately owned, all the shares are owned by a family trust!) at €510 million........ We have to try harder this year and next too! 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

That works out as 0.0059 mpg or thereabouts! Makes a supercharges 5L look quite cheap to run really

mzplcg wrote:

Not only a red dye either. This can be overcome quite easily but there is also a chemical tag, invisible to the naked eye but it does show up in the soot which can be scraped from your exhaust and subsequently analysed in a lab. This remains in the exhaust system for a very long time, long after any traces of dye have been flushed through.

Sorry, but is this a proven fact? 

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Currrent: 2005 FF Range Rover L322 Vogue TD6
Gone: 1999 Range Rover P38 HSE TD6
Gone: 1985 Land Rover 90 SWB diesel

I worked out, the other day, that my work place was doing about 47mpg per passenger on a long run. Not bad compared to a car as I can get the punters to Cyprus in 4 hours with their luggage!
She is a bit more thirsty on a Manchester run and only a few on board.
I remember the old jet I was on was doing similar mpg down to the bottom of Africa and it would take longer than 10 hours to drive there!
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