Terry McAuliffe (head of the Democratic party under Clinton) is a CEO of one of these car companies sucking money from the Treasury. I went to its website a while ago and it showed Cadillac size cars getting 80 miles to a gallon. Old Terry is probably just rolling in Department of Energy money.
MPG is funny figures for any hybrid. If it’s charged up before putting it through the standard courses used to rate petroleum fueled cars, its engine will loaf along. Different story once the batteries run out of juice. There ought to be a sustained-course rating that really does compare apples-to-apples between hybrids and petroleum-only cars, with the hybrid forced to use gasoline only for long enough that it matters, or until the batteries are brought back to the same state they had at the beginning of the course.