Featured Fuel Economy Champions

Source: America’s Fuel Economy Champions in Each Class

The ranking for U.S. market vehicles thus defines the “best” as not the fastest, quickest, or most athletic necessarily, but rather the one that makes the biggest contribution in its segment by EPA rating.

However, these winners culled from our HybridCars.com Dashboard are electrified, meaning they use gas part time – or in the case of battery electric cars, not at all.
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The following are in Jeff's list but did not show up in the EPA list:

• Hybrid Sedan – Honda Accord Hybrid – 48 MPG
• Hybrid Crossover/SUV – Lexus NX 300h FWD – 33 MPG*
• PHEV Crossover/SUV – Volvo XC90 AWD PHEV – 25 MPG / 53 MPGe
• All-Electric Crossover – Kia Soul Electric 105 MPGe Combined, 120 City, 92 Combined

Jeff's ranking over laps some of the top EPA www.fueleconomy.gov models. The EPA web site uses a simpler metric and may not include every model Jeff included (when I looked at it a couple of days ago.) Here are the EPA rankings and highlighted models Jeff identified:

	rank	MPG	MPGe	range	model
1	0	56	0	633	Prius Eco
2	1	52	0	588	Prius
3	2	50	0	475	Prius c
4	3	46	0	598	Malibu
5	4	44	0	524	Jetta
6	5	42	0	567	Fusion
7	6	42	0	500	Prius v
8	7	42	0	500	CT 200h
9	8	39	117	150	i3 REX
10	9	42	106	420	Volt
11	10	40	99	600	Sonata
12	11	32	85	340	Cadillac ELR
13	12	38	88	550	C-MAX
14	13	38	88	550	Fusion
15	14	30	80	320	Cadillac Sport
16	15	39	86	430	A3 e-tron
17	16	0	124	81	i3 BEV
18	17	0	119	82	Spark EV
19	18	0	116	83	E-Golf
20	19	0	114	84	Leaf (24kW)
21	20	0	112	62	I-MiEV
22	21	0	112	107	Leaf (30kW)
23	22	0	112	84	500e
24	23	0	107	68	fortwo

Bob Wilson

 

The number 114 miles is being bandied about. Although often delayed 3-4 months, I recommend waiting for the EPA numbers.

Bob Wilson

 

Typo. Fixed in the text. Will take a little longer for graph.

Bob Wilson

On a slightly different issue, "range extended EV." CARB has a precise definition of a range-extended battery-electric vehicle:

• Electric range of at least 75 mi
• APU range less than or equal to battery range
• APU only comes on after battery is significantly depleted
• Must meet SULEV
  
• Zero evaporative emissions fuel system

The Volt range is too small and the APU can come on before battery depletion. In contrast, the BMW i3-REx meets these requirements.

Bob Wilson