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450g/km? C'mon. Can you point at a number remotely close to that one in a reputable peer-reviewed publication? Or is that for a fleet average (25mpg) vehicle, with 100% of the energy for refining assigned to the gasoline generated and 0% assigned to the rest of the refined goods?
The fair comparo is a BEV against the thriftiest two-mode hybrid they could build for the same price, with the same acceleration, top speed, payload, and cargo volume as the reference BEV. This reference gas car would outperform the first-gen Insight and its 12 year old technology by a good margin, while seating four. 100mpg for everybody.
For that matter, 40g/km? That's about 40Wh/mi on the grid here. Non-sense.
I admire your conservationist spirit. I'm also concerned about our future. I've done the math, and I know that electrification of our fleet, without the greening of our grid, will not help the situation.
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