Liters per Kilos: Suzuki Motor turns fuel savings into food

3,184 kilos of food has been collected thanks to fuel savings, accumulating 20 tons since the project began.

This year Suzuki Motor Ibérica will allocate 3,184.5 kilos of essential items to the Madrid Food Bank for the most disadvantaged.

The 'Liters X Kilos' campaign was launched six years ago, thanks to the fuel economy test with the range of Suzuki vehicles.

The goal is to lower the fuel usage of seven Suzuki models (S-Cross, Vitara, A-Cross, Swace, Ignis, Swift and Swift Sport). Each one of the liters saved by normal consumption approved by the WLTP of each model is converted into kilos of food that are delivered to the Food Bank.

In previous years, only one model was used, but this is the second year that Suzuki has used its entire catalog of cars in this project, which from now on are loaded in Mild Hybrid, Full Hybrid or crossover module (PHEV) mode.

The test is completed with a group of journalists from the automotive area who, quite successfully, form a team to achieve the greatest number of kilos.

This year, all the members registered a lower than regular consumption and the seven champions, in each of the models, lowered it by more than 30%.

The established route covered 57.7 kilometers, starting at a farm on the outskirts of Madrid, near the town of Tres Cantos and on Colmenar street (the M-607) and returning after passing through Colmenar Viejo, San Agustín de Guadalix and the A-1 highway.

The test required driving in the heat, without cooling, without opening the windows, at low speed and taking advantage of the descents so as not to consume a drop of fuel or power on account of the A-Cros, which has a range of 75 km in 100 mode % electric thanks to its 18.1 kW battery.

Suzuki Motor Ibérica will send the huge loads of food obtained in this campaign to the Food Bank of Madrid next Monday, January 24.

Among them, some necessities such as oil, milk, pasta, preserves and, above all, food for children, which will be used for a noble cause for distribution among people without resources.

Each year, the Madrid Food Bank Foundation serves more than 190,000 homeless or extremely deprived people, of whom 33,000 are children and 10,000 newborns, through 565 foundations that have distributed more than 23 million kilos of food in 2021.