Not exact matches
Yes, it was a ridiculously long wait, and Honda missed a golden opportunity to market the hybrid to Americans in the summer
of 2008, when an historic
gas - price spike saw
regular unleaded soar to $ 4
per gallon.
We managed a very good 38.2 miles
per gallon of regular grade
gas.
At that price, and with
regular unleaded
gas at $ 1.50
per gallon, you'll pay less than half the price
of gasoline to go the same number
of miles in an EV.
Using my 42 real - world diesel mpg, which most drivers should be able to match, against the 30 highway mpg rating
of the
gas - engine Equinox 1.5 T, and using the AAA's late - May average fuel prices
of $ 3.20 a
gallon for diesel (plus $ 5 for a
gallon of diesel exhaust fluid good for 10,000 to 12,000 miles), versus $ 2.96 a
gallon for
regular unleaded gasoline, yields a cost
per mile
of 9.07 cents for diesel and DEF; 9.87 cents
per mile for gasoline.
Regular self - service unleaded
gas decreased an average
of 1.2 cents
per gallon in July to a statewide average
of $ 1.07
per gallon.
Using the current average price
of $ 2.337
per gallon for
regular gasoline, that works out to a savings between 2.1 % and 10.7 % on each
gas purchase.
At an average price
of $ 2.50 a
gallon for
regular fuel, your 5 cents -
per -
gallon discount only amounts to a savings rate
of 2 %, and if your car uses the pricier premium
gas — averaging over $ 3 a
gallon — that rate drops to 1.6 %.
At an average price
of $ 2.50 a
gallon for
regular fuel, your 5 cents -
per -
gallon discount only amounts to a savings rate
of 2 %, and if your car uses the pricier premium
gas — averaging over $ 3 a
gallon — that rate drops to 1.6 %.