
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood Nj, speaking of EV’s , Car and Driver magazine’s testing director Dave VanderWerp has compared the EPA’s fuel economy and range estimates to the results of his own real-world highway tests.
He found that electric vehicles underperform in efficiency and range relative to the EPA figures by a much greater margin than gas-powered vehicles. Gas vehicles averaged 4 percent better than their stickers indicated. The average range for an EV was 12.5 percent worse than the window sticker numbers.
VanderWerp says that while the EPA tests separate city and highway range figures, only a combined number is presented to consumers. The combined rating is weighted 55 percent in favor of the city figure, where EVs typically perform better. This inflates the EV range estimates.
Something think about for tonight’s Village Council agenda that features a presentation on “Electric Vehicles for Village Department” .
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Everybody who has EVs knows that.
Everybody who has a fully functioning brain knows that.
and we also believe the mpg estimates for gas using cars lol
Use the percent of charge remaining and don’t depend on the miles remaining on the Guess-o-meter.
Some manufacturers do it better than others but a lot don’t.
And part of the problem is that there is too much information available with EV’s that you don’t see in ICE vehicles (and therefore “doesn’t” exist).
But the same laws of physics apply to both.