When we picked up our Kia Soul rental last Thursday it was full of gas. We drove from Charlottetown to Montreal, drove around Montreal a bit, and drove back. Total driven from door-to-door was 2,441 km and the Soul reported that it used 8.1 litres/100 km of gasoline when I return it; actual gasoline purchased:
- Hartford, NB - 37 litres at $1.337 for $50.68
- Deschambault, QC - 44 litres at $1.394 for $61.47
- Brossard, QC - 11 litres at $1.359 for $16.24
- Levis, Quebec - 35 litres at $1.394 for $49.51
- Hartford, NB - 39 litres at $1.337 for $52.16
- Charlottetown, PE - 38 litres at $1.281 for $49.38
So we used a total of 204 litres of gasoline which cost me $279.44. This comes out to a slightly higher 8.36 litres/100 km, or about 28 miles per gallon. Which is right around what the U.S. Department of Energy reports.
Our carbon footprint for this trip was either 0.38 tonnes or 0.40 tonnes or 0.46 tonnes depending on who’s doing the calculation. This is 60-70% of our emissions if we had flown (0.65 tonnes).
