The new road to lower emissions may have some potholes

Sept. 16, 2009

By Jessica Leber

...And Dan Becker, head of the Safe Climate Campaign, said that methods to calculate fuel-economy numbers for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles are plagued with uncertainties about how people will drive the vehicles.

"You are allowing GM to offset their gas-guzzling vehicles with a few Chevy Volts. That vehicle doesn't exist yet. We have no idea whether people are going 20 miles, 40 miles ... or 120 miles on a charge."
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