i guess my main point in this discussion is that most people focus too much on range because it’s the only thing they know and they want to feel smart by spewing numbers … but range is not the issue for either EVs or PHEVs …
the issue for ( non-Tesla ) EVs is charging and the issue for ( poorly designed ) PHEVs is SLUGGISHNESS and ROUGHNESS once the battery is depleted …
more range would solve NOTHING. idiot car reviewers talk about it the same way they used to talk about horsepower because it’s something that is easy to talk about and seem like an expert when you really know nothing.
i recently wrote about how Range is the new Horsepower:
and it is, in the sense that it’s what people talk about now …
but Horsepower never even directly translated to ability to accelerate let alone to overall car quality … you could always put a Turbo on a Civic in the old days but it would ultimately still be a Civic …
Likewise you can always put a bigger battery into EV or PHEV and thus give it more range but that is a band aid … a very expensive band aid …
If you watch closely you can see car reviewers starting to feel smug when talking about range - it’s as if they expect you to get down on your knees and thank them for blessing you with their wisdom, which is that more range is better …
all idiots think they are very clever and all car reviewers are idiots …