Source: America’s Fuel Economy Champions in Each Class The ranking for U.S. market vehicles thus defines the “best” as not the fastest, quickest, or most athletic necessarily, but rather the one that makes the biggest contribution in its segment by EPA rating. However, these winners culled from our HybridCars.com Dashboard are electrified, meaning they use gas part time – or in the case of battery electric cars, not at all. . . .The following are in Jeff's list but did not show up in the EPA list: Hybrid Sedan – Honda Accord Hybrid – 48 MPG Hybrid Crossover/SUV – Lexus NX 300h FWD – 33 MPG* PHEV Crossover/SUV – Volvo XC90 AWD PHEV – 25 MPG / 53 MPGe All-Electric Crossover – Kia Soul Electric 105 MPGe Combined, 120 City, 92 Combined Jeff's ranking over laps some of the top EPA www.fueleconomy.gov models. The EPA web site uses a simpler metric and may not include every model Jeff included (when I looked at it a couple of days ago.) Here are the EPA rankings and highlighted models Jeff identified: rank MPG MPGe range model 1 0 56 0 633 Prius Eco 2 1 52 0 588 Prius 3 2 50 0 475 Prius c 4 3 46 0 598 Malibu 5 4 44 0 524 Jetta 6 5 42 0 567 Fusion 7 6 42 0 500 Prius v 8 7 42 0 500 CT 200h 9 8 39 117 150 i3 REX 10 9 42 106 420 Volt 11 10 40 99 600 Sonata 12 11 32 85 340 Cadillac ELR 13 12 38 88 550 C-MAX 14 13 38 88 550 Fusion 15 14 30 80 320 Cadillac Sport 16 15 39 86 430 A3 e-tron 17 16 0 124 81 i3 BEV 18 17 0 119 82 Spark EV 19 18 0 116 83 E-Golf 20 19 0 114 84 Leaf (24kW) 21 20 0 112 62 I-MiEV 22 21 0 112 107 Leaf (30kW) 23 22 0 112 84 500e 24 23 0 107 68 fortwo Bob Wilson
Nice! Any idea what the future range of the all electric i3 will be? I agree that the existing amount is insufficient - at least for me.
The number 114 miles is being bandied about. Although often delayed 3-4 months, I recommend waiting for the EPA numbers. Bob Wilson
Typo. Fixed in the text. Will take a little longer for graph. Bob Wilson On a slightly different issue, "range extended EV." CARB has a precise definition of a range-extended battery-electric vehicle: Electric range of at least 75 mi APU range less than or equal to battery range APU only comes on after battery is significantly depleted Must meet SULEV Zero evaporative emissions fuel system The Volt range is too small and the APU can come on before battery depletion. In contrast, the BMW i3-REx meets these requirements. Bob Wilson
