How Long Would It Take to Wash Every Car in Nebraska?
Sometimes after a good day’s work providing speedy, spotless car washes, we can’t help but feel like there’s not a dirty car left in Lincoln. Which got us thinking… what would it take for JetSplash to hand-prep, wash and hand-dry every vehicle in Nebraska?
Throw on that old Casio calculator watch and start your engines!
Let’s get into the nitty gritty:
In 2019 2,399,518 vehicles were registered in the Cornhusker State. (source: https://neo.ne.gov/programs/stats/inf/72a.html)
Of that total, 50,647 were motorcycles, so we’ll take those out. (Sorry to all the Hell’s Angels Jet Rag subscribers.)
Farm Trucks, Other Trucks, and the mysterious category of “All Other” (UFOs???) come in at a whopping 1,143,721. We know a spotless farm truck just isn’t right, and the “Other Trucks” can’t fit in the wash so we’ll scrap those too.
That leaves us with 1,205,150 regular automobiles ready for the JetSplash treatment.
According to The Google, the average length of a car is 14.7 feet. That means that a line of 1.2 million cars bumper to bumper would stretch approximately 17,715,705 feet – about 3,355 miles. That traffic jam would stretch from Memorial Stadium to Seattle – TWICE! You’re gonna want to get in line.
Our JetSplash washing system is designed to provide a spotless wash in about 5 minutes.
(Note: if you haven’t put on your Casio watch yet, this is your final warning)
Let’s do some math:
We have 1.2M cars and 7 locations. That means each location will need to wash 172,000 cars.
Each wash takes 5 minutes. That means that the total washing time at each location will be about 860,000 minutes, or 14,000 hours.
JetSplash’s convenient hours of operation average 10 hours per day, which means that it would take…
Drumroll…
1,400 days to wash all those cars – OR ABOUT 4 YEARS!
