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Chevrolet Volt does 72.1mpg in US Official US government EPA analysis gives Chevrolet’s ambit extender accumulated 72.1mpg figure.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has assuredly absitively that Chevrolet’s advocate Volt delivers the agnate of 72.1mpg on the accumulated cycle.

The amount is affected from two locations – the EPA states that the Volt has a absolute ambit of 379 miles, with the aboriginal 35 getting undertaken on electric ability alone. In this phase, the car allotment 111.7mpg, while this drops to 44.4mpg if the 1.4-litre engine bliss in.

The EPA has been apperception on how to ensure that the new bearing of ambit extender and all-electric cars are compared adequately to commonly powered cars, ensuring that barter are accustomed a fair abstraction of what to apprehend from the car. 

The new appraisement is alleged MPGe, and takes electric abstracts as getting agnate to 33.7kWh of electricity getting the aforementioned as application one US gallon of fuel.

The EPA analysis is aswell harder and arguably added accordant than the European NEDC version. For example, the 1.6-litre petrol chiral Fiesta allotment a accumulated mpg amount of 38.4mpg in the US, while Ford claims 48.7mpg for the aforementioned car here.