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Old 03-07-2015, 07:57 AM   #115 (permalink)
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Hypermiling, EPA numbers and Ecomodders garage

Looking at the garage the average hybrid beats the average gasoline car by a wide margin.
The hybrid in the middle of the hybrid list gets 51 mpg.
The car in the middle of the gasoline list gets only 32 mpg.
Only one hybrid in the entire list gets a lower mpg than that - a Toyota 4x4 Highlander...

Of course the average hybrid may have been designed more with economy in mind than the average gas car on the list.
Indeed the median over EPA % is just 4 for the hybrids and 15 for the gas cars.
Not that big a difference, but it is there.
That is only logical, as we are a hypermiling crowd, and hybrids do some of the hypermiling for us - giving us less remaining opportunities for improvement.
That difference is caused by hypermiling.

Yet in absolute terms the hybrids still beat the gas cars by more than 50%.
Makes sense?
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