It's disingenuous to make such a mileage claim when the reason for the
higher mileage is that the car is partially running on stored utility
power.  The energy comes from somewhere -- if not from burning gasoline
in the motor, then from burning gas/oil/coal/uranium somewhere else.

Allan

"Ken Wilford" <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET> said:
> Probably a plug in hybrid concept.  100 mpg would be fine with me.  At
> that point even at $5 per gallon you are looking at a per mile cost of
> around $0.04 per mile which puts us back to gas being cheap again.  Not
> sure what the cost of plugging in your car overnight would be but from
> what I have read it is supposed to be "pennies".  The new battery I have
> been whining about for the last couple of years is finally in the
> pipeline as well.  I recently read an article about a guy at MIT (I
> believe) who has figured out a way to make the Li-ion batteries last 10
> times longer!  It has something to do with nano-tubes of graphite but
> the short of it is that this could actually make the electric car viable
> and the plug in hybrid a car that could go even farther on a tank of
> gas.  Necessity is the mother of invention as they say.  I just hope all
> of this tech starts to mature before they figure out a way to drop a
> gallon of gas back down to $2 per gallon or it will all evaporate again.
>
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
>
> John Rodgers wrote:
> > Was watching a congressional energy hearing on C-Span Saturday and in
> > the discussion came this whopper of an announcement. - "Friday, Toyota
> > announced a new car is in design that will be capable of 500 miles per
> > gallon of fuel". There was no discussion about this, it was just
> > mentioned in passing as part of the conversation on another issue, but
> > it sure caught my attention.
> >
> > John Rodgers
> > 88 GL Driver
> >
>