Comments on: Google’s Plug-In Study Finds As High As 93 MPG

By: Aptera Raises $24M for Electric Car Production « Earth2Tech

Aptera Raises $24M for Electric Car Production « Earth2Tech — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:55:14 +0000

[...] An engineer with Google.org’s RechargeIT green car program, Rolf Schreiber, told us Google is interested in Aptera is because its vehicles go “to the extreme of high-efficiency,” and are overall “cool,” and “modern.” Schreiber headed up Google.org’s recent plug-in vehicle driving test that found its plug-in Prius’ achieved over 93 MPG. [...]

By: jeffh

jeffh — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:58:23 +0000

Google may be using some form of mpg equivalent for the electric only portion. As an eg. the EPA’s formula gives electric cars a reward for the economic benefits of not using gas and they show some EV’s as having mpg equivalents of up to 300 mpg.

By: Enote

Enote — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:58:00 +0000

@Tyler
exactly! the report needs to compare carbon emissions of gasoline consumed by ICE versus coal used to generate the electricity by the plug-in’s

By: Google.org Invests in Electric Car Startups « Earth2Tech

Google.org Invests in Electric Car Startups « Earth2Tech — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:57:57 +0000

[...] Google.org has had its plug-in vehicle research and development program for over a year now, moving to investing in startups is significant. Like Google has done for infotech startups, and [...]

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:05:46 +0000

The MPG figures are misleading because they don’t incorporate the energy used from electricity. When I drove a plug-in for a week, I could get 400 MPG because the engine hardly ever kicked in, but obviously I used a lot of juice from the battery. There’s got to be a way to blend the electricity use and gas use to come up with an MPG-equivalent measurement. For example, you can’t use MPG with an all-electric car, so how to you compare mileage of an all-electric to that of a plug-in?