In article .com,
Matt Beard wrote:
I think this 130mpg figure comes from "charge batteries (from mains or
engine), drive 130 miles, see that you have used 1 gallon of fuel,
assume this means 130mpg". What you have actually done is 130
miles-per-(gallon of petrol plus whatever was used to charge the
batteries). Not the same.

Yup. This is exactly how it fiddles the combined figure. No-one has ever
got near it in practice.

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