Those are all hybrids .... you would need to compare them to a hybrid motorcycle
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 13, 2019, at 8:47 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 13 Nov 2019 at 6:06, paul dove via EV wrote: > >> Harley-Davidson's fleet average fuel economy for 2018 was 44 mpg. >> >> What car gets 44 mpg? > > 2016 Toyota Prius, 54mpg city. > > 2015 Toyota Prius C (aka Yaris Hybrid), 53mpg city. > > 2000 Honda Insight, 61mpg highway. > > 1995 Honda Civic VX, 52mpg highway. > > 1989 Honda Civic CRX HF, 62mpg highway. > > 1986 Chevrolet Sprint, 53mpg highway. > > (BTW, that old Sprint weighed just 1500lb. For obvious reasons, it made a > pretty decent EV conversion. So did some of the Hondas.) > > (I also think it's intriguing and entertaining that the 1989 2-seat Honda > CRX HF, with a more or less normal ICE, got better highway mpg than the > highly streamlined and hybridized 2-seat 2000 Insight of about the same > size.) > > I expect that I could find more examples with a more exhaustive search, but > I don't really see the point of comparing a motorcycle's mpg to a car's. > They're totally different vehicles and are used totally differently. > > For a more useful comparison, > > https://www.liveabout.com/fuel-efficient-motorcycles-two-wheeled-2399396 > > has a list of ICE motorcycles that return from 63 to 85 mpg. > > In the early 1960s, a "nifty, thrifty" Honda 50 got 225mpg. You coudn't > really call that a motorcycle, though It was more like a bike with a leaf > blower engine strapped to it. > > To put this in even better perspective (and bring it back on topic), I've > seen an E-motorcycle -- can't recall which -- claiming something like 460 > mpg-equivalent. I don'l know how they computed that, or how valid it is, > but it beats 44mpg by better than ten to one. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
