3 Months Ago, Editor from GM FastLane says (in Bob Lutz on the Chevy Volt’s Fuel Economy Rating) General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz weighs in on today’s announcement that the Chevy Volt will get at least 230 mpg (city) using the draft EPA federal fuel economy methodology and will get more than 100 mpg combined (city/hwy.) You can read Bob’s thoughts at ChevroletVoltAge. - Will Stew...

And Sebastian Blanco from AutoblogGreen says (in Chevy Volt gets 230 mpg, but how?) Under the new methodology being developed, EPA weights plug-in electric vehicles as traveling more city miles than highway miles on only electricity. The EPA methodology uses kilowatt hours per 100 miles traveled to define the electrical efficiency of plug-ins. Applying EPA's method...

And Lyle from GM says (in Chevy Volt Gets 230 MPG City EPA Rating) GM CEO Fritz Henderson announced today that the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric car has been given an official EPA rating of more than 230 MPG city and a combined city/highway average fuel...
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