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Old 05-31-2013, 01:19 PM   #97 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by niky View Post
NEDC gives you a "get out of jail free" card if you can complete a portion of the cycle on electricity, as far as I can recall. I'm not that familiar with the test, but a lot of PHEVs claim faintly ridiculous numbers on the NEDC city cycle.
You're right.
They'll never get anywhere near those numbers on longer distances - where regular cars get closer to NEDC

Aerodynamics OTOH have 0 impact on NEDC as the test is run on a dynamometer ...
They're there to get the customers somewhere remotely near NEDC test numbers IRL.
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