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PETROL AND DIESEL

nine lines of comparison, and in three of them the requirement is the same for both

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

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Formats
A4 · A3 · A2
What you get
Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject
vehicles · everyone · comparison · study

Every figure comes from the document named beneath its line. The = sign marks the lines where the requirement is identical for both fuels.

A LITRE OF DIESEL HOLDS NO MORE ENERGY — IT IS SIMPLY HEAVIER

Annex III of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 gives both fuels the same figure per kilogram — 43 MJ — and different figures per litre: 32 for petrol, 36 for diesel. The whole of that difference turns out to be density, which lives in an entirely separate document: EN 228 allows petrol 720–775 kg/m³, EN 590 allows diesel 820–845. Multiply the middle of each range by the same 43 MJ/kg and out come exactly the two figures the directive prints for a litre.

So «diesel is more economical», in the part that belongs to the fuel itself, means no more than «diesel is denser»: a 55-litre tank is about 4.7 kg heavier and carries 220 MJ more, which is 12.5 %. Everything else that separates the two on the road happens in the engine, not in the litre.

On the sheet

  • Every figure comes from the document named beneath its line. The = sign marks the lines where the requirement is identical for both fuels.
  • Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
  • Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

  • Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
  • All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
  • White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
  • Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
  • No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 10 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

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