Wedding etiquette expert Lizzie Post adds that if your budget is on the lower end, say under $25, it may be better to give a physical gift rather than cash.
VMT is a metric of the total miles travel by vehicles in a defined area over a defined period of time and is often used to estimate the environmental impacts of driving, such as GHG and air pollutant emissions. Reduced VMT also results in additional co-benefits (e.g., reduced congestion), but these additional benefits are outside the scope
So, here's the conundrum. If his drive is less than 20 miles from his home in New Jersey to downtown Manhattan and he acknowledges that the Volt gets only 25 miles on its battery, what happened to those remaining five miles? He flippantly refers to a two or three mile detour to pick up donuts. Okay, we're still short two miles. If he drives 18.8 miles to work and the car gets 25 miles in EV mode, he should have been able to drive the entire trip as an electric car. Instead, within two miles of his work place, the car reverts to hybrid mode, which the EPA rates at 37 mpg (city/highway combined).