Throwing in a seat into a vehicle does change its dynamics of fuel efficiency by some margin, and to illustrate the difference, Ford’s Focus Electric is said to be the “first all-electric vehicle to achieve a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel efficiency rating”, although the Mitsubishi i, cranking out 112 MPGe, is a 2+2 seat vehicle, and unlike the Focus Electric that has seating for five, I guess the additional seat in the latter means it loses out on 2MPGe. Give or take a couple of miles, I guess it does not really matter that much, as the main focus would be the fact that an electric vehicle is capable of hitting such a high efficiency level without missing a beat, not to mention the Focus Electric being capable of juicing itself up in half the time it takes for a Nissan LEAF to do so, when plugged into a 240-volt outlet.
To put it in human time, that would translate anywhere from 3 to 4 hours of recharge time, clearly far less than what most folks would leave their electric vehicles plugged in. Either way, most of us would juice up our electric vehicles at home when we sleep, so it will only matter when you’re in a rush during the day.
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