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Seems a bit disingenuous to call it 261 MPG when you have to plug it in.
by tlrobinson 14y ago
Seems a bit disingenuous to call it 261 MPG when you have to plug it in.
- coin 14y agoI agree. They are treating the electricity like it's free (cost and environmental impact). I see a lot of Chevy Volt owners bragging about their "300 MPG" economy. If you have a dual fuel source vehicle (hybrid) and ignore one of the fuels, the numbers will always look good. Using their methodology a Nissan Leaf (pure electric) gets infinity MPG. What we need is a distance per fuels used, where fuels is all the gas and electricity.
- salem 14y agoDifferent sources of electricity have different environmental impact, but at least you can have a good idea of where your utility gets power from. At the same time, you don't know if your gas came from tar sands or easy to get (but dwindling) shallow Californian oil. There is an electric equivalent mpg called mpg-e: http://www.edmunds.com/fuel-economy/decoding-electric-car-mpg.html http://www.edmunds.com/fuel-economy/decoding-electric-car-mp...
- SeanLuke 14y agoCorrect. I think this is a 170 MPG diesel (or, converted, 152 MPG gas) one-seat microcar with a plug-in option, and that's all. 152 MPG is an impressive research effort for an in-house microcar. I don't know why they need to junk it up with dubious claims. It's bad enough that the Volt does this miscalculation as well, right on its dash -- another great car with misleading claims.