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RedDevil · 03-07-2015, 08:57 AM

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?

03-07-2015, 08:57 AM	#115 (permalink)
RedDevil Master EcoWalker Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Nieuwegein, the Netherlands Posts: 3,999 Red Devil - '11 Honda Insight Elegance Team Honda 90 day: 53.59 mpg (US) Thanks: 1,714 Thanked 2,247 Times in 1,455 Posts	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? __________________ 2011 Honda Insight + HID, LEDs, tiny PV panel, extra brake pad return springs, neutral wheel alignment, 44/42 PSI (air), PHEV light (inop), tightened wheel nut. lifetime FE over 0.2 Gmeter or 0.13 Mmile. For confirmation go to people just like you. For education go to people unlike yourself.