There are a lot of reasons for this.
The miles per kilowatt-hour measurement.
That’s cool and expected, but it places a vehicle powered by lightning in a gas world.
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This allows a reasonable comparison between vehicles using different fuels."
Explain that to a friend looking to buy an EV.
They’ll likely just walk away mumbling to themselves about how they didn’t do so great in calculus.
The amount of energy it’ll take for the vehicle to travel 100 miles per the EPA’s testing.
For the 2022 Chevy Bolt, it’s 22-kWh per 100 miles.
Now we’re getting somewhere.
We’ve trained our brains to think in units of travel per unit of energy source, aka miles-per-gallon.
Essentially like the miles per gallon that we’ve been using for years, but with electricity.
So the quick breakdown is:
That’s a bit easier to wrap our heads around.
So my Kona Electric will travel 3.57 miles for every kWh of energy.
In fact, we have ahandy EV chargingguide to help you figure that out.
That’s how I know that we’re currently averaging about 4 miles/kWh in our Kona.
The information already is being presented to drivers.
Hopefully, as gas-vehicle production is slowly phased out, the EPA and automakers will figure this out.
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