Massive Tanker.

[Gorvid]

If you took one of these...



And filled it with diesel and plumbed it in to the vehicle fuel tank, so it could run on the contents.

How far could it drive?

[rosscobmw]

How many litres does it hold?

[JREwing]

That's very difficult as fuel economy would improve as it uses more fuel, surely?
Unladen weight would be enormously different to laden weight.

[louiebaby]

You'd need to pee by the end of the experiment, I know that for sure!

[GC8]

60,000 miles, ish.

[LC926]

38,000 litres

[thismonkeyhere]

I'm going with a capacity of 30,000 litres, and an average mpl of 2.2 (10 mpg) which would give:

30,000 * 2.2 = 66,000 miles.

[markmullen]

Apparently a big one takes 19,000 litres, which is about 4180 UK gallons.

ISTR a tractor unit pulling a trailer will do 8-12mpg, so allowing 10mpg as an average (as I am sure the economy will improve as the load is reduced) you're looking at 41800 miles between refills.

[JonnyFive]

So in theory, if a car has done say 100,000 miles at an average of 30mpg.. How many of these tankers would it need to have fueled it that far?

[b4rk3r]

30,000 litres .. Enough to take me about 132,000 miles. I think.

[anonymous-user]

so if you could nick a tanker full of fuel and hide it successfully, you'd have fuel to last you about the lifetime of 2-3 cars

[JonnyFive]

doogz said:

About 1/3rd of a full size tanker trailer.

Interesting.. It doesn't look like very much fuel like that.

[maffski]

I saw a documentary once that suggested it would be good for about 10 years in the Australian outback, but you'd have to spend some of the time with Mel Gibson.

[fathomfive]

louiebaby said:

You'd need to pee by the end of the experiment, I know that for sure!

You'd obviously leave a few bottles of Truckers Tizer along the way.

[The Moose]

RealSquirrels said:

so if you could nick a tanker full of fuel and hide it successfully, you'd have fuel to last you about the lifetime of 2-3 cars

And assuming the fuel doesn't degrade!!

[louiebaby]

fathomfive said:

louiebaby said:

You'd need to pee by the end of the experiment, I know that for sure!

You'd obviously leave a few bottles of Truckers Tizer along the way.

Oddly, that's one of the strongest memories of doing Lands End to John O'Groats last year. Some of the roads were littered with them.

[JonnyFive]

doogz said:

Consider it as 2L bottles of coke.

You use what, 25-40 of them to fill your car, depending on the size of the tank?

You'll have 22,000 of them.

See now that sounds like a lot of fuel. Interesting, perspective of things.

[anonymous-user]

The Moose said:

And assuming the fuel doesn't degrade!!

stored in the absence of air it should be fine basically forever.

[Monkeylegend]

No point really though because when got got there it would be empty.

[Monkeylegend]

doogz said:

Monkeylegend said:

No point really though because when got got there it would be empty.

Pardon?

Should have added a