Hey! Remember when General Motors was talking about the Chevrolet Volt approximately one year ago and brought up the whole 230 MPG thing? Yeah, that's still when Fritz was still around.
I will never forget sitting in the GM auditorium that early morning and seeing the cartoon-like banner rolling down, unveiling GM's big announcement: 230. It was a huge risk on its part but GM didn't have much to lose, I suppose.
Anyway, it has not totally backfired on them but it certainly has not worked out according to plan.
But it is not a whole "Who has the best MPG" kind of game anymore. Now consumers are trying to figure out if C02 should be considered as well.
All that we know is that the engineers are confused, the marketing department is probably cussin' out the EPA and consumers are more or less just shrugging off the whole situation.
**Check out Daily Finance's look into the MPG/C02/EPA mess that has happened, thanks to alternative energy vehicles by clicking "Read Article"
Get ready to do a lot of math if you're keen on buying a Chevy Volt and want to compare fuel costs between electric and gasoline cars. It'll be a sharp change from what auto shoppers have been doing for years: simply eyeballing the gas-mileage ratings displayed on new-car stickers in dealer showrooms.
As major automakers start to roll out plug-in electric hybrids (the Volt) or all-electric cars (Nissan's LEAF) later this year, consumers will see mileage numbers on the price stickers that will attempt to explain these cars' fuel economy. But what many shoppers could end up finding is confusion.
That's because the federal Environmental Protection Agency is still working on rules for determining fuel ratings and labels for these alternative-fuel vehicles. At the same time, the EPA also is working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on labels for greenhouse-gas emissions for electric cars. The complication there: how to take into account emissions from power plants, not just the cars' tailpipes...
[Source: Dailyfinance]
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