China to enforce world’s first mandatory EV energy standard in 2026, capping two-tonne models at 15.1 kWh per 100 km
> Authorities stated that, following technical upgrades, vehicles with the same battery capacity are expected to see an average increase of about 7 percent in driving range due to reduced energy consumption.
I don’t know tbh. I think it’s the same as Celsius/Fahrenheit, you’re just more used to it this way and none is better than the other.
Obviously this doesn’t apply to metric/imperial, imperial makes no sense, so don’t consider me an apologist for imperial lol
Mpg is worse than its inverse gpm, because it’s not linear, and humans are really bad at comparisons of non-linear values.
Consider 3 vehicles. They get 10 mpg, 20 mpg, and 40 mpg. With these numbers, it’s obvious which is the most efficient, but it’s not easy to tell how efficient. For instance, will you get more fuel savings trading in your 10 mpg for the 20 mpg, or the 20 mpg for the 40 mpg vehicle?
Instead, if we look at those vehicles with their gpm ratings, we can quickly tell how much benefit we get from upgrading. Respectively, they are 10, 5, and 2.5 gallons per 100 miles, and it’s much easier to see that going from 10 to 20 mpg is a much bigger improvement than going from 20 to 40 mpg.
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