The average new car isn’t much more fuel-efficient than older ones. Still, to this day, the average vehicle has a range of between 20 and 30 miles per gallon, a stat which was very similar in the 1920s. How come with all the advances we’ve made in the last century is fuel efficiency the same?
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This is a really complex question. Are we talking just four-door sedans? Because they have gotten more
Fuel efficient since 1920. But also, there are more variables than just fuel efficiency. For example, safety standards. A car built in 2021 and sold in the USA has to meet a tremendous number of safety standards. This means that fuel economy is sometimes sacrificed to meet these standards. Take a Honda Civic engine back to 1920 and slap it into a light crappy car and bam, there’s your efficiency gain. I mean you’ll be driving an unbalanced death trap, but you see what I mean.
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