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What Falling Sales? Plugins Grew to a Record 1.7 Million Units in September! (cleantechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are degrees of plugin hybrids.

One one hand you have things like the current batch of BMW "hybrids" that are just an underpowered(at least for the highway mountain passes where I am, they're overpowered for city driving) gas car with a token electric motor.

But you also have ones that have a tiny gas motor that can be designed to run exclusively at peak efficiency. Is it ideal, no, ideally it would be 100% electric, but for the logistics we have, they will do for now.

[–] Buffalox 1 points 2 weeks ago

As I stated before, there are use cases for hybrid, but that doesn't make them fully electric cars. Calling a partially electric car electric is nonsense. Which leads to exactly the question of where the line is drawn.