Quote:
Originally Posted by PaleMelanesian
I found the old epa tests to be pretty accurate for a reasonable driver - eg my wife. She's not a hypermiler, but she does realize there's a connection between the gas pedal and the gas pump.
|
Since, as you noticed, the old EPA is about the same as the NEDC, then NEDC should also be good for the average driver. My opinion is that it's pretty hard to stay within the NEDC numbers. I could
barely beat them before I started aeromodding and got serious with hypermiling. Before then I was a relatively slow (only 10-20km over the speed limit, which is
very slow here) self-educated ecodriver. I think that Euromodder will agree about how hard it is to beat NEDC figures. Everyone at the my local car forum has worse milage (?kilometerage?) than NECD, the few that have tried to do better gave up without extraordinary results.
Maybe the difference is between American and European driving? Different traffic, different roads, different climate, etc. I guess I'd have to drive my Peugeot around the US to really see if there is a difference.