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Chevy Volt Debuts to Enthusiasm in California

I have an idea... make the companies with electric cars drive a 100 mile course and see how much fuel is actually used. Test every car on the same 100 mile course twice and average the results. Require that no car be within "x" feet of the vehicle on highways and that a preset number of stops and launches be performed. Regulate launches with robotics or simply dyno test these vehicles under normal driving conditions. Robots can control the accelerator and brake pedals to gauge engine performance... and a formula can factor in the coefficient of drag to find the expected normal values.

Give the data some meaning! I'm tired of estimates based on engine displacement. just put actual values on these cars and let the consumers have the real data obtained during the tests. We consumers can tell how much fuel is used with OBD II readers, but the EPA can't manage to set up a scientific study for testing the same things? Ridiculous!