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Article: EPA's gas mileage results not realistic
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- October 3, 2005
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Drivers who track their own fuel economy have long known that
their results seldom match the gas mileage claimed by the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on new-car stickers.
Our study of gas mileage in hundreds of vehicles for model-years
2000 to 2006 -- in which we compared EPA fuel economy with the miles
per gallon (mpg) we measured in our real-world tests -- quantifies
that problem across a wide swath of makes and models.
Among our findings:
* Shortfalls in mpg -- those instances in which our numbers lagged
EPA's -- occurred in 90 percent of vehicles we tested.
Some models we tested fell short of EPA claims by 35 percent to 50
percent.
* Hybrid vehicles had some of the biggest ...