The rant is sort of on, but not really. MPG is a bad name, but it is based on the EPA's draft standard for plugin hybrids. What it is telling you is that for a

The rant is sort of on, but not really. MPG is a bad name, but it is based on the EPA's draft standard for plugin hybrids. What it is telling you is that for a typical city driver who charges up each night, by the time the odometer reads 230 miles they will have used one gallon of gas. They also are kind enough to report that the car gets 50 mpg when running the engine, so other than the headline they aren't being too deceitful. I'm not sure what the EPA stickers will look like, but I hope they have "kwhr per mile (electric)" and "gallons per mile (gas)" as well as the standard numbers. It is time to fix our silly reciprocal measurement (mpg is silly. No one says "I'm gonna burn me a gallon of gas and see how far I can go!")