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" This story is brought to you by Gas 2.0  According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), Chevrolet&amp;#039;s upcoming Volt is an ultra-low emissions vehicle, or ULEV\u2013which is great, until you realize that tailpipe emissions from Volkswagen&amp;#039;s line of TDI diesels, Toyota&amp;#039;s Prius and Honda&amp;#039;s full line of Hybrids are (per CARB) significantly cleaner. Chevy&amp;#039;s Volt performed well in most categories, but not concerning carbon monoxide. CO limits for SULEV status is 1.0 grams per mile (below) while ULEV is 2.1 g/mi. Volt produces 1.3 g/mi. To be fair, CARB requires that these tests must be completed with the car&amp;#039;s ICE (internal combustion engine) running, and since the Volt theoretically doesn&amp;#039;t need to burn any gasoline on short drives it doesn&amp;#039;t benefit from its electric-only abilities in this test \u2026 although the same could be said of Toyota&amp;#039;s Prius which performed significantly better than the Volt in the same test, earning the Prius a better CARB rating. There are, I am sure, dozens of ways to interpret this data, but (to me) this news\u2013along with the Cruze&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;reduced&amp;quot; mpg numbers and the Volt&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;outing&amp;quot; as a much more conventional hybrid\u2013seems like another chink in the armor for the new GM. For those of you who&amp;#039;d like to deep-dive into the mathematics involved, you can CLICK HERE to check out the full CARB report (in PDF format).  SOURCE: California Air Resource Board, via  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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