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US average retail gasoline prices ended 2017 lower than they started

Green Car Congress

US regular retail gasoline prices averaged $2.72 per gallon (gal) in 2018, 30 cents/gal (13%) higher than in 2017 and 57 cents/gal higher than in 2016. In 5 of the 10 cities for which EIA collects weekly retail price data, gasoline prices exceeded $3.00/gal gal at least once in 2018. Midwest (Chicago and Cleveland).

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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

Conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 30% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels—the balance (~70%) literally goes up in smoke. In light of the current spike in gasoline prices, the savings on fueling costs with EVs are even greater. Vehicle safety is very important to me and many others.

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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

Clean Fleet Report

Instead, I drove to Cleveland and then back westward to the center of Iowa, where I visited a relative. The next EV he recalls driving was an electric car built in the early 1900s before gasoline cars took over the market. That prediction came true in 2018, when the Volkswagen IDR4 shattered the previous overall time.

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