How do you measure electric cars miles per gallion? BTU's Therm's ?

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Alan G

Is the EPA setting on it's thumbs for electric cars mileage?
They knew this was coming and the did nothing. What a great do nothing job!

Answer
It's tricky because Americans are so used to mpg, but it's obviously not a relevant metric when talking about cars that don't use gas.

The EPA is coming up with a method which rates vehicles in kilowatt hours per 100 miles, then converts that measurement to miles per gallon. Effectively, the testing procedure doesn't give an mpg rating. It merely shows that a vehicle will use energy that equates to a certain mpg rating.

What steps will Big Oil companies take to ensure that very few people buy electric cars?

Byakuya

Now that electric cars are finally starting to become available, the Big Oil companies will undoubtedly be plotting and planning how to keep people from buying them. What strategies do you think they'll use to keep us dependent upon gas?

Answer
Same thing they did for the EV-1... petition government to keep oil standards low, wage a media war against them as being weak, unsafe, bad for business, and even un-American.

(Or say stupid stuff like Greed above - especially when the energy that it does take to charge a car is a fraction of the amount of energy that goes into an automotive gas combustion engine for the same amount of mileage... Not to mention that even with the US's "dirty" power grid, electric car's secondary emissions would still be less then half of of the total emissions by a conventional US gasoline auto.

But then again, which industry would have the most to lose if the US did upgrade our power grids??? So, who can we expect to put up obstacles to that as well?)

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