Hey, so this is awkward. But have you noticed it’s getting kind of hot out there? According to NASA, the average global temperature is 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it was in 1880. That might be our fault. We’re talking about humans in general, yes, but also specifically about us at Car and Driver. As you might have guessed, we haven’t exactly been limiting our fossil-fuel consumption.
From January through August 2019, we tallied 447,984 miles driven in 172 cars, with 20,182 gallons of gas burned, 302 gallons of diesel consumed, and 2295 kilowatt-hours of electricity pumped into plug-ins and EVs. That comes out to 1844 miles, 83 gallons of gas, just over a gallon of diesel, and nine kilowatt-hours of electricity a day, putting us on pace to produce…
