>Probably most EVs are getting 2-3 mi/kwh upstream of the charger >(ie. on the AC side).
Do you mean: as measured at the wall rather than by what's on board? It sounds like you might mean something else. >My Rabbit bounces around anywhere from >1.5mi/kwh to 3.5mi/kwh, depending on how short my trip is (and >how large a percentage of the trip is my big hill), how balanced >the pack is, etc. I've measured this with an AC kwh-meter. I had thought your numbers were about what I've heard, but some of the folks here seem to be claiming much higher. I test-drove a RAV4 EV the other day, and I believe that the EPA mileage listed on the sticker worked out to very roughly 3 mi/kWh. This is not to say that others here might not get much better, I'm just mentioning. I don't know how they measure. >I've seen numbers of 33, 36, and 38 kWh in a gallon of gasoline. It's easy to convert kWh from BTU (3412 BTU per kWh) but it's hard to nail down what's in a gallon of gasoline or Diesel. Neither is strictly defined, both can vary. For gasoline I use 106,000 BTU, but it can be lower (even lower than 100,000 I think) or higher (as high as 114,000 or maybe more I think), depending I think in part on the season. For Diesel, I use about 140,000 BTU though this also is not necessarily precise. I did some research into this once, and it was just very hard to get a steady answer as to the energy content of a gallon of gasoline.
