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Old 05-02-2009, 05:54 PM   #114 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by Ernie Rogers View Post
Let's have a gasser and an identical EV drive a distance so that the gasser uses one gallon of gas. The EV will use only 3/7 as much energy...
Will it? Your theoretical computations might be right on the money (for a reasonable drive cycle), or they could be way off in either direction. We won't know for sure until someone actually does the experiment.
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