My commute for the past 3 years or so was 33 miles roundtrip. I have a Volt, which in the summer gets about 40-41 miles range, and in the winter can get as low as 23-24. Fortunately I could charge at work when I wanted, so my monthly commute bill was 8 bucks (charging half at work for free) to 16 bucks (charging all at home).
I'd like to know more about this Volkswagon and what they mean by 260+mpg. Really depends on how they test. In the volt I was getting above 400mpg at a time if one were simply dividing miles driven by gas burned. I had 6500 miles on the odo and only had burned 16 gallons total of gas.
And it's really only a "zero-emissions" when your charging source is green too
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