[George from New England]

Idiots.

How can you have a MPG (miles per gallon) if no gasoline or liquid is used. There is no gallon or volume of liquid involved. If you use electricity then you need a whole new measurement. Period.

[Slapshot68]

Agreed, the MPG claim is a bit meaningless. I just love that it trumps the Volt which is a Government Motors offering.

[tired1]

Stop asking stupid questions!

[C210N]

How can you have a MPG (miles per gallon) if no gasoline or liquid is used.

How about if a car uses magnetism for propulsion? Then, it would be Miles per Gauss.

[icwhatudo]

1,000 miles per gallon.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

What is the measurement that's used to determine the amount of electricity used at one's house? Isn't it KiloWatts?

I hope everyone realizes that once the gas cars are replaced with electric cars, the environmentalist wackos will try to put taxes on electricity claiming it pollutes the air from power plant emissions.

[Sparko]

“Idiots.

How can you have a MPG (miles per gallon) if no gasoline or liquid is used. There is no gallon or volume of liquid involved. If you use electricity then you need a whole new measurement. Period.”

Stop that crazy stuff. You run the risk of being reported.

HelpsomeoneisaskingquestionshowdoIrespondBobGibbs@whitehouse.gov

[bills70]

The point of the Volt is that it is a plug-in electric hybrid vehicle. It still has a gasoline engine, it just doesn’t use it for the first 40 or so miles. After that the gas engine kicks in to charge the battery and power the electric motors, and by doing so, it manages to be still more efficient than most cars, at 50 mpg.

I’m going to be fair here and say that this is really the fault of the EPA’s mileage estimates being poorly designed, and they were never meant to be used for such cars. Yay for government bureaucracy being unable to handle/regulate new technologies, stunting their growth. This 230 mpg claim was based on the same tests that they’ve been using for years now.