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Hybrids Beware? EPA Revises Mileage Standards

Posted by timothy on from the lies-damn-lies-and-downhill-coasters dept.

Shivetya writes "The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced a new system for determining the fuel economy of many cars and trucks. Hardest hit will be hybrids as all-electric driving is not considered. At the same time, many medium-duty vehicles will get rated, but not have to be published until 2011 This move to more realistic ratings will severely reduce the high numbers some cars have posted."

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  1. more information about this... by Shivetya · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the EPA site itself http://www.epa.gov/fueleconomy/420f06009.htm#fuele stimates

    A site to enter your own observed information http://www.fueleconomy.gov/mpg/MPG.do?action=addGu estVehicle

    or lookup what others have recorded http://www.fueleconomy.gov/mpg/MPG.do?action=addGu estVehicle

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  2. One-Two Punch by schwit1 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Having accurate mileage along with recommendations on raising mpg requirements could be a very cold shower for the US auto industry.

    Getting the US off of the foreign oil tit should be a national security imperative.

  3. Re:Beware of what? by jandrese · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Heck, I never thought massive MPGs were really the point of Hybrids. You can get massive MPGs out of tiny compact cars with little lawnmower engines. The point of the Hybrids to me is to get decent MPG while not accelerating like a fat kid on a tricycle and not bogging down when you need to move three of your friends somewhere in stop and go traffic.

    You're not paying extra for a car that gets exceptionally good MPG. You're paying extra for a car with good MPG that doesn't suck to drive.

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  4. Re:Beware of what? by khallow · · Score: 5, Informative

    The old Honda Civic VX (straight gasoline) could get 50+ MPG and it was considerably better on the highway. My mom got 55-60 MPG with her VX on the highway, but it dropped to 45-50 in city driving.