ABSTRACT
The equivalent of the electricity metre number is the vehicle registration number. Typically, this follows the vehicle, although always; so you may need to uniquely identify the vehicle. Most unlikely to be missing, as volumes need to be tracked to prevent fraud, as fuel is a valuable fungible commodity, all transport operations will have controls in place to ensure against fuel theft. Vehicles are fuelled at multiple locations which can be in different states, countries, and formats, i.e., the vehicle moves, and the data formats can vary. The USA is the only exception to this. Even in the UK, fuel is priced and dispensed in litres and many vehicles can report distance and performance in kilometres at the flick of a switch on the dashboard. The UK Department for Transport published a whole series of simple conversion factors back in the noughties which we can use today in our presentation of figures.
