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Originally Posted by Ecky
1 gallon of gasoline contains ~33.7kwh of energy,
What isn't taken into account is cost - where I live, 33.7kwh of electricity costs about $6, while a gallon of gas only costs about $2.30. Since I can reliably get 70mpg tanks in my Insight, an EV would need to get 2.5x that, or 175MPGe to break even in cost per mile, not taking oil changes and other maintenance into account.
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33.7kwhr of energy drives my 4 passenger PHEV about 202+ miles
A gallon of gas moves my PHEV a max of 50 miles but usually closer to 40 miles.
Me thinks your metric ignores a rather simple truth regardless of your cost per gallon.
See my attached real world summer fe off my NAV screen, do the math and tell me I'm wrong