Who knows? Any mpg claim for any vehicle that uses any amount of electric drive is pure gibberish. EPA needs to get off their lazy hind ends and report # kWh / 100 miles for ALL (inlcuding pure gassers) vehicles back to at least 1991. Once you have that information you can:

1. Compare all vehicles’ efficiencies directly, apples to apples.
2. Figure out some economics of vehicles based on efficiency (say, using a efficiency weighted car price of (# kWh / 100 miles) * (vehicle cost). where a smaller number is better. On this basis a Prius (1.875 M) beats a Jetta TDI (2.450 M) beats a Tesla Roadster (2.500 M). Note that Tesla is right in the cream of the crop, though, as they all crush a 2009 Yukon Denali XL (15.354 M), which costs as much as 2 Priuses and is 3 times less efficient.
3. Compare energy sources by price. Currently, electric drive wins hugely as electricty is a cheaper price per kWh than gasoline and much, much more efficient.

As emissions move from the tailpipe to the smokestack (or hopefully dam, PV farm, wind farm, et al.) it’s a whole lot easier to monitor and reduce emissions from hundreds of coal plants as opposed to millions of cars–many of which likely aren’t being maintained as well as they should be and thus probably aren’t as clean burning as they were the day they left the factory.

A little basic deductive reasoning, and PHEVs only make sense–just as soon as the car makers can start producing them safely and reliably. Concluding PHEVs don’t work because the aftermarket conversions are expensive sounds like the kind of argument one would expect from the petroleum industry, not CU.

Remember, the official EPA metric is now # kWh / 100 miles, for pure gassers and hybrids too and that the lower the number, the more efficient the vehicle.

Not to deride Israel at all……if people had been shooting rockets at me for years……I would have killed them all in year one.