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When you boil it right down to essentials, it's all predictable.
Take vehicle A, apply a specific set of hypermiling techniques, at a specific average speed and you can basically predict the results.
As Robert stated, the problem is when you choose a specific type of improvement, like a percentage over EPA.
This choice penalizes those who drive the most efficient cars available, in much the same way it would not be fair to use the best mileage achieved.
Sadly in every choice you could make their are inequities and compromises which only add to the confusion.
Maybe the best way would be passenger MPG. This would measure the fuel consumption of the vehicle divided by the number of passengers. This would make a 15 passenger diesel van that got 16 MPG the mileage champ, since it could multiply its 16 MPG by 15 passengers to get 240 MPG per passenger.
My VX with 5 passengers would be at about the same amount with 5 people and 50 MPG for 250 passenger MPG.
Maybe a family average MPG would demonstrate to people what is really possible.
regards
Mech
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