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Environment & Energy

NickB79

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3. 40 MPG? What's the MPGe for an EV again?

Reply to linuxuser3 (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 06:07 PM

Dec 2018

Gasoline-powered vehicles have to be taken off the roads entirely within 10 years to have a snowball's chance in hell of avoiding 2C of warming. I doubt they will, though. We seem determined to destroy our civilization.

Improving the efficiency of gasoline-powered vehicles by 20% won't cut it.

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40 MPG? What's the MPGe for an EV again? NickB79 Dec 2018 #3