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For all vehicles, it's fairly difficult to achieve the miles per gallon (MPG) estimates established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The testing doesn't take in account real-world driving conditions. But the EPA estimates seem particularly unrealistic for hybrid vehicles. This is largely due to the nature of hybrids, which run on a combination of a gasoline engine and eletric motor.
For all vehicles, it's fairly difficult to achieve the miles per gallon (MPG) estimates established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But the EPA estimates seem particularly unrealistic for hybrid vehicles. This is largely due to the nature of hybrids, which run on a combination of a gasoline engine and eletric motor.


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For all vehicles, it's fairly difficult to achieve the miles per gallon (MPG) estimates established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But the EPA estimates seem particularly unrealistic for hybrid vehicles. This is largely due to the nature of hybrids, which run on a combination of a gasoline engine and eletric motor.

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