I don't like the %-over EPA as it derates European members when they use their NEDC values.
With Hägar I'm a measly 11% over NEDC, and don't even qualify as a hypermiler.
Yet beating the NEDC in day-to-day driving is already something in itself.
At the level I'm starting at - 47mpg NEDC - things get a wee bit harder to improve upon.
Can't recall who it was - PaleMelanesian ? - but someone calculated a conversion between EPA and NEDC using vehicles that are offered on either side of the Pond, and came up with this :
EPA(us mpg)= 205.87/EU(L/100km)
EU(L/100km)= 202.04/EPA(mpg)
That'd mean 41 mpg for Hägar, meaning I'd be 27 % over ... instead of only 11% .
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