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Old 08-15-2009, 02:13 AM   #41 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
What happens when you drive 230 miles in a Volt? You use way more than 1 gallon of gas.
Sure, but how often do you drive 230 miles in a day? (If you do it frequently, maybe the Volt isn't the right car for you.)

I think people are just going to have to get used to the fact that with plug-in hybrids, there's no one number that everyone can agree on for mpg. If you lived in a moderate climate (so you never needed heat or A/C), and always drove less that 40 miles a trip, you'd get infinite mpg. If you left home one morning and drove across the country without ever recharging the batteries, you'd get closer to the 40 to 60 mpg figure.

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