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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Breakdown on how to get 1 more mpg in a pickup. Funny how we have claims here of several mpgs for every individual item.  |
So it cost's the consumer roughly $3,000 to get 1mpg gain on a truck, driving habbits staying equal.
And at least the customer gets a useful tonneau cover out of the deal. Each additional mpg is likely going to cost exponentially more, unless a complete and radical redesign is done from the ground up, with efficiency as a core part of the design. Perhaps a hybrid ladder frame-Unibody structure like the Ridgeline which as it turns out, only gets 20mpg's on the highway. Honda is going to discontinue the Ridgeline as well, so that may give you an indication as to how much customers want hybrid-chassis trucks.
I think the simplest solution is to jack up gas prices so nobody can afford to waste fuel. Or I could be spelling out the recipie for the revolutionary Tea-Party appocalypse.