How many kilometres per litre does a motor scooter get?
With the price of petrol on the rise, fuel consumption is of interest. Just how many kilometres per litre does the average scooter get and what about the average car? How much fuel money can you save by riding a scooter instead of driving a car when you compare fuel consumption?
After an extensive amount of research using not only numbers supplied by manufacturers but also using websites where people are putting in their actual usage, we can put scooters into 2 categories. The larger scooters – maxi scooters and 300cc plus scooters which weigh about 150 kg and over and the smaller scooters that weight between 100-150 kg and are 50-200cc.
The larger scooters tend to get between 23 to 29 kms per litre so roughly 3.5 to 4.5 litres to travel 100km. The larger scooters tend to be quite efficient for their size as they are fuel injected and many have catalytic converters and Euro 5 ratings making them quite clean burning.
The smaller scooters range between 30 and 39 kilometres per litre, so 3.3 – 2.5 litres per 100 km travelled. Most are between 36 and 38 kilometres per litre. Again, most of the new bikes are Euro 5 rated and very clean burning making them more efficient than in the past and a few claim to get 40 or more kms per litre. New technologies improve fuel consumption too. The Piaggio Medley S for instance gets as high as 40 km/litre and the stop/start technology would certainly help with that around town.
Your average small car gets about 13 kms to the litre so when you compare that to an average scooter getting 36 km to a litre that is a significant saving in petrol. If you do on average 260 km per week in your vehicle, at spending $2.20 per litre, you save $1462 per year in petrol and you are using 64% less fuel, significantly reducing your carbon footprint too. So, yes you can save money and help save the planet by riding a scooter instead of driving a car.