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Prius efficiency comes with environmental price You are right for the production part. But if a new car is much more fuel efficient and cleaner and you drive a lot of miles a new car might be better. For instance driving more than 10000 miles a year in an old polluting diesel is not good for the environment.

Prius efficiency comes with environmental price The big question is after how many miles is the lifetime environmental impact of the Prius lower than a standard car. If you only drive 5000 miles a year may be a Prius does not make sense but if you drive more than 10000 miles a year you will save a lot of gas and I assume the total lifetime environmental impact will be lower than a standard car.

Chevy Volt gets 127 mpg in independent test What is good about the Volt is that you can drive the first 40 miles on electricity alone. After that you can continue on gas around 35 mpg so it is not a Prius. If you can drive most of the time on electricity this can be a great car.

Chevy Volt gets 127 mpg in independent test When using the ICE the Volt will use around 35 mpg. But if miles driven on electricity are also used to calculate the mpg you can get any number between 35-1000 mpg depending on how much you drive on electricity, WCF please stop these nonsense.

GM Confirms Chevy Volt to get 230 MPG On the chevrolet website I found the following: "How about the petroleum equivalence factor (PEF), is that included? There will be on the label itself an accounting for the gasoline equivalent of KWH used. That?s a separate conversion that will get melded in another way and is not included in the MPG estimate." This makes everything clear in this number 230MPG the electricity they used is not included. It was not even green energy they used it just came out of the air.

GM Confirms Chevy Volt to get 230 MPG I think this is a great car but this number is just misleading. Genie said "In the US, on average producing 1 kWh of electricity generates 0.6kg of CO2." this is exactly the same as in the Netherlands, so a number around 50mpg in the current situation is more realistic. GM made a bright step with this car but the next step needs to be more green energy in order to get this fantastic 230mpg.

GM Confirms Chevy Volt to get 230 MPG In the Netherlands the CO2 number for the Toyota Prius is 89g/km CO2 and they made a calculation for an average electric car and came to 84g/km CO2. The Prius does 50 mpg according to EPA so an average electric car should do about 53mpg. So 230 mpg does not seem realistic or did they use electricity produced by windmills. I think the EPA needs to make new rules for electric cars.