Prototype sedan can get 70 miles per gallon: ; Ford Prodigy not; offered for sale yet
To compare the relative energy consumption of electric cars with vehicles that run on fuel, the EPA provides a miles-per-gallon equivalent measurement, called "MPGe." This unit of measure establishes that one gallon of gasoline equals 33.7 kWh of electricity. Based on this calculation, if an ...
Gas was .25-.30 cents per gallon. So here comes reality 3-4x more bang for your buck. So now comes Uncle Sam giving the auto industry 10 years to improve fuel economy which equated to lighter cars less metal more plastic lighter engines less cubic inches less horsepower etc. The truth ...
Menzie, if you wanted to do something cheeky you could do a comparison graph between the price of gas and the price of milk. I used to think that gas at more than $4 a gallon was the sign that things were about to fall apart. Now, because my nominal spending baseline has been shift...
Evarts, Eric C
For the category regarding the ICEVs in the household, we defined the variable MPG (miles per gallon) of the ICEV in the household as the real-life MPG based on actual driving distance and fuel consumption. We computed the following dependent variables for our analysis: eVMT, VMT of the ...