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  1. Come on... obviously the 100MPG rating doesn't mean it can drive 390 straight on 4 gallons of gas. the high mileage comes from the fact that in everyday driving, NOBODY drives that far. Assume that the gas engine gets a (very low for this tiny engine) 20 miles per gallon combined. That means that the car, with 12 gallons, can drive only 240 miles on a tank of gas. But then you look at how you drive it. Say, on an average day, you drive a total of 50 miles a day (average, including trips to/from work and random driving on weekends). if you're charging your vehicle when you park for the night, every day that means that you're only using up 10 miles on the gasoline engine, since the other 40 are done on the battery. By the time all 240 gas miles are used up, that's 240 miles/10 miles per day = 24 days to use the full tank. In those 24 days, you've also driven those 40 miles average per day. SO that totals to 24*40 = 960 miles. Now you're looking at a total of 960+240=1200 miles on a tank of 12 gallons... equalling? 100MPG. The point is, if the EPA test is done solely using the gas component, and it got, say 40 MPG, that's much much much much much lower than the typical driver will ever see and the EPA ratings become completely irrelevant. And the few times that the Volt driver does take a trip and sees the lower gas mileage, it's made up for by all the other time spent on normal driving days. Again, those numbers were made with fairly lame assumptions and calculations, but just for fun: 12 gallon tank, 35 mpg (like the cobalt or whatever) = 420 mile gas range cost: 12*4 = $48 for a tank of gas 50 miles/day = 10miles on gas per day = 42 days driving = 420 miles on gas + (42*40=1680) = 2100 miles = 175mpg 70 miles/day = 30 miles of gas per day = 14 days driving = 420 gas miles+(14*40=560)=980 miles = 81.7mpg 100 miles/day! = 60 gas miles/day = 7 days driving = 420 gas + 280 battery = 700 mi = 58mpg! 39/miles/day = 0 gas miles = infinite gas mileage! Surely the few road trips are worth the overall gas mileage... so how do you rate that?
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