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So they do a series of very precise, complicated drive cycles (with a few different options of which cycles and fuzzy math multipliers) to estimate a number that people will never reach because they're doing 80mph. But somehow to anti-ev people it's only electric range that is an unforgivable lie, not ambitious MPG ratings. It seems like a disadvantage to use a different rating system but I guess you can't trust the gen pop to understand MPkW since they can't picture a bottle of 1kW
I suspect most people wouldn't really know how big a gallon is either. They care about how much they pay per gallon, and they just don't know that their electricity bill tells them how much they pay per kWh.
Americans often buy milk by the gallon and have various 1-5 gallon gas cans for common gas powered equipment (lawn mower, leaf blower, generator). I beleive a gallon is tangible here. I'm sure ~4 liters is tangible for metric countries although they often use l/100 miles so they just need to know 1 liter, which I assume many drinks are sold as such