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Does anybody else think it would be a good thing to add MPGE (miles per gallon equivalent) to the energy chart? We are all used to thinking in WH/mile, but that means nothing to our ICE friends and relatives. A friend of mine just bought a new RAV4 hybrid and was very proud of his "high mileage" (41/38, I think it was). I didn't know what my MPGE was, so I looked up the formula. It's trivial: 33.7 / (WH per mile / 1000). The "33.7" is the EPA number representing the energy contained in a gallon of gasoline. My average WH/Mile so far is 291, which computes to 116 MPGE. Now that's a number that they can relate to! Most people know that our cars are fast (as I demonstrate whenever possible), but I don't think many of them appreciate their efficiency. It would be nice to be able to see it without using a calculator.

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