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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Vehicles primarily burning gasoline (or diesel) will get a good deal less than 54.5 mpg. Due to the way its calculated, I bet they will end up with a real world average of 30 to 40 mpg. To start with, the archaic methodology gives everything roughly a car a 20% bonus vs its EPA window sticker. Then figure in that electric vehicles & plug in hybrids can easily achieve a 100 mpg rating, probably 200 by 2025. If sold in high volume, they'll skew the curve to read artificially high.
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That's the key right there, are plug-in hybrids going to come down enough in price to viable by 2025? Somehow that $7,000 estimate mark-up for cars seems to be right on the money. Not factoring in for inflation, $25,000-$29,000 Cruze anyone?
