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> Both models have five variants respectively, providing an all-electric driving range between 80 km and 120 km All gas cars can get big range numbers like th
by cma 2y ago
> Both models have five variants respectively, providing an all-electric driving range between 80 km and 120 km
All gas cars can get big range numbers like the headline with a bigger tank. It is 81mpg with an empty battery though which is the more impressive stat.
- toast0 2y agoMy first car had a 300-400 mile range, because it had a factory option 33 gallon (US) tank and up to 12 mpg. If there was room for a 33 gallon tank on my C-MAX PHEV, I'd have range in line with this announcement; cannonball run in maybe one gas stop here we come; although I don't think the efficiency holds up at cannonball run speeds which are awful close to the c-max maximum speed and recent runs have used 65+ gallon tanks. IMHO, in reality, anything between 300-600 miles of reliable range is fine for a car that uses readily available liquid fuel. That seems to be where the US market seems to have optimized for in the past few decades.
- winter_blue 2y ago81mpg is extremely impressive. The best MPG cars available in North America top out at the high 40s and low 50s. 81mpg is +30 over the Prius.
- nomel 2y agoSuspiciously impressive, you could say.
- theevilsharpie 2y agoThe last time I had to commute to downtown Los Angeles (about a 50-mile drive), my Prius got 72 MPG. My car is nearly 10 years old, so either I somehow managed to obtain the world's best Prius (with no loss of hybrid battery capacity over time), or you're underestimating the capabilities of today's hybrid gas-electric vehicles.
- toast0 2y agoWell, my TDI got 60 mpg+ on the highway, which was better than the EPA estimate, but then everybody got mad at VW.
- sgc 2y agoBecause they were utter charlatans, and for such egregious behavior, an example must be set. And now they have to go all-electric, so everybody wins - including them.
- aitchnyu 2y agoTangential, is there an all electric range value where we can define a PHEV as green? For example people don't bother to charge low range PHEV cars.