{"id":94,"date":"2008-09-08T09:17:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=94"},"modified":"2008-09-08T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T16:18:42","slug":"epa-threatening-to-hide-the-actual-mpg-for-the-volt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/epa-threatening-to-hide-the-actual-mpg-for-the-volt\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA threatening to hide the actual MPG for the Volt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.motortrend.com\/6293345\/government\/could-the-epa-cripple-the-chevy-volt\/index.html\">Motortrend<\/a> is reporting that the EPA and GM are at odds over the method to be used to measure MPG in the upcoming electric\/hybrid car the Chevrolet Volt.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Volt can run 40+ miles on battery power with NO gas, it does very well on the standard EPA city cycle, scoring a rating of over 100 mpg.\u00a0 So what&#8217;s the problem?\u00a0 The EPA wants to change the test, so that an electric car is required to finish the test with a full battery.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That means the test would become ONLY a measure of how fuel efficient an electric\/hybrid car is while running ONLY on the gas engine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It would NOT reflect the city MPG the Volt will ACTUALLY get once it is on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I care?\u00a0 Because people shop and compare vehicles based on the EPA&#8217;s published MPG.\u00a0 They TRUST that the EPA MPG is predictive of what they would actually get in mpg while driving the car.\u00a0 I feel that it is important for the EPA to test hybrid\/electric cars on the same standard they use for gas cars.\u00a0 If the electric\/hybrid can finish the whole city cycle while using NO gas then it should receive an appropriate rating that indicates this fuel economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motortrend is reporting that the EPA and GM are at odds over the method to be used to measure MPG in the upcoming electric\/hybrid car the Chevrolet Volt. Since the Volt can run 40+ miles on battery power with NO &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/epa-threatening-to-hide-the-actual-mpg-for-the-volt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}