EPA has Not Tested the Chevrolet Volt

To provide a fair MPG rating, EPA should start car's testing with the batteries empty. Also this would show the the gains of running an engine at optimal rpm (torque/fuel consumption) minus the loss of converting the torque of the engine into stored electricity.

Whilst initially I was inclined to agree with you, how often realistically will the battery be empty when a journey begins? It is a plug in hybrid after all.

This was expected....

I have come to a conclusion as to what this car really is. It's a pill, to mask our guilt for destroying the environment. Like giving morphine to someone that just lost their leg, they don't feel the pain anymore because the morphine hides it, but their leg is still missing at the end of the day. It moves the pollution from your car to a magical and mystical place that we don't see. The good old power plants, that pollute somewhere else. But don't worry you are saving the environment by moving the pollution from your tail pipe to their smoke stacks, or at least you tell yourself to make it all better. The truth remains your leg is still gone, and when the morphine fades off the pain comes back. Cars are not the problem, planes, tankers, military ships, power plants, steel refineries, industry as a whole is the problem. No control, and the control is a joke. I used to work at a steel refinery, and it was cheaper to dump and pollute and pay the fines than to do it properly. If we want to really do something we have to start caring about what is really harming us, and it's not cars. We have to stop blowing our own legs off metaphorically speaking.

And yeah as per the article i think we already covered the true economy of this car in the previous article. Pollution wise it's the same as a 53mpg petrol car, and as cost efficient as a 56mpg diesel. Really what else matters? Pollution and cost to get to where you need to go. And thats on pure battery power, based on GM's ideal that people don't commute more than 20miles each way to work. The reality is i doubt that's the case so the engine gets like 34mpg or something, so it's actually less than 53-56mpg when you combine it. Not something to really cheer off the roof tops about. Or to make a Cobalt worth 40,000$.

Chevrolet Volt, you will see, will be best selled car in US and it will kick ugly Prius in ass