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To: RagingBull

The 230 mpg number is based on driving 50 miles. Of course, the first 40 are with the battery (infinite mpg), the last 10 are gas-powered (46 mpg).

12 gallon tank * 46 mpg + 40 battery miles = 49 mpg.


66 posted on 08/11/2009 7:22:56 PM PDT by RagingBull (Talent does what it can; genius does what it must)
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To: RagingBull
The 230 mpg number is based on driving 50 miles. Of course, the first 40 are with the battery (infinite mpg), the last 10 are gas-powered (46 mpg).

Leave it to the current administration to cook up a new way to compute mileage by varying the trip length. By that measure my old pickup truck gets over 30 mpg. It's a 1/2 mile downhill to my buddy's place so I can just hold the clutch in and coast down there with the engine off. When its time to go home I start it up and drive home.

1/2 mile at infinite mpg, 1/2 mile at 16 mpg. Overall, 32 mpg.

73 posted on 08/11/2009 7:33:39 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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