On: The withering dream of a cheap American electric c...

[schmidtleonard]

Yes, and EREVs are obviously superior as a hybrid architecture yet most of the ink gets spilled pushing PHEVs, so it's pretty clear that people with PHEVs to sell are pushing the narrative.

[amluto → schmidtleonard]

I’m suspicious that regulators have made the EREV category worse than it could otherwise be:

See the CARB Regulation section here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_extender

Why not instead set a carbon price and otherwise let the market and owners decide what mix of gasoline and grid electricity to use?