You joke but I literally pictured a super long battery for a solid bit before it clicked. I was thinking maybe it was coiled and technically really long like a spool of wire
How about the 2024 Ford Escape PHEV. 37 mile range on electric, which will cover most of dialy driving, and then it switches to gas. Should work out that you can pay 1/3 cost for fuel most percent of your driving, and not have to worry about long range trips. Base price is like 41k, meaning a used vehicle would drop quick.
Edit: apparently the 2025 now starts at 38k. So price came down didn't find range.
I have an older fusion energi and don't plug it in because charging every day is a hassle.
I'm not anti-anything though. Clean energy is good, efficiency is good, the luggage space wasted isn't awesome but whatever. I'm just explaining why I care about range. That's not a long weekend camping trip and the infrastructure for pure battery in the places I like to be don't make low range viable.
I really don't get why PHEV never ramped up to be the next thing instead of all this push to go full electric when the tech and infrastructure isn't good enough yet.
Eh, it’s really not that dumb assuming there’s an average electric discharge for electric vehicles. Most laypeople don’t understand kWh beyond “bigger number better”.