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Old 11-11-2010, 07:36 AM   #36 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by 04_Sentra View Post
I don't have any disagreement with your W2W analysis of EV vs ICE. The comment on mpge being Life cycle energy is unfair to EVs was because mpg is always tank to wheels. So if mpge is Life cycle energy then it isn't really "equivalent" to mpg as the name suggests.
Unless you apply a 17% bonus to the mpge conversion factor to account for this fact.
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