Green Options » car mileage http://greenoptions.com/tag/car-mileage Posts tagged 'car mileage' Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:09:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Illusion of MPG: Is It Really A True Measure of Your Car’s Mileage? http://gas2.org/2008/06/20/the-illusion-of-mpg-is-it-really-a-true-measure-of-your-cars-mileage/ http://gas2.org/2008/06/20/the-illusion-of-mpg-is-it-really-a-true-measure-of-your-cars-mileage/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:09:59 +0000 Max Lindberg http://gas2.org/2008/06/20/the-illusion-of-mpg-is-it-really-a-true-measure-of-your-cars-mileage/ This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post.

All these years, I’ve been doing the simple math of dividing the number of gallons used over a given number of miles driven, to determine how my car is doing on gas mileage.

Now come two professors from Duke University who say that may not be the accurate way to determine how efficient your car really is.

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