Hummer H3 get 100 mpg???
So, the Hummer H3 currently gets about 15 miles per gallon, whereas the new electric Hummer H3 that will be available in 2011 will supposedly get 100 miles per gallon! That’s quite a difference. President Obama announced on Tuesday that there will be new standards for fuel efficiency and carbon emissions. Then the next day, Hummer announces that it will be introducing this electric SUV, the Hummer H3, that gets this unbelievable gas mileage. Interesting and especially interesting is the timing. But whatever, timing is everything in life, right? I think the most interesting part of this whole story is that there are many skeptics out there that believe that Raser Technologies, who has put together this vehicle, is misleading customers by saying that it gets 100 mpg. According to Doug Schiller, who runs alternativeenergy.com, Raser is only factoring in the amount of gas used and not the electric (electricity energy) that it takes to run the Hummer H3 as well. If you factor the energy it takes and ”convert it into the equivalent of gasoline, the H3 would get 33 mpg.” Wow, that’s a huge difference. The new Hummer H3 will cost about $55,000, which is 20-30% more than the Hummer H3’s current price. Either way, the new electric Hummer H3 gets much better gas mileage. I guess we’ll have to wait and see whether it’s 33 mpg or 100 mpg, when the car becomes available in another year or so.