Re: Hybrids?
"See those statements don't add up and proves the point. You have a hybrid which you never need and have never needed to fill with gas. But you are lugging around a combustion engine with all the negatives of that stated above (You have to put up with slow charging, a smaller battery, less room, more failures, servicing costs etc when you could have just got an EV that was designed from the start as an EV)"
In the OPs case, you are right, he may as well have gone for a pure electric. But you seem to be sayingthat all hybrids are a waste because you are "lugging around a combustion engine", implying that it's a huge inert mass equivalent to a an ICE car engine. A properly designed and built hybrid is all electric but has a small, lightweight, ICE generator set which is not running under an inefficient and variable load, it's running under optimum conditions to top off the battery as and when needed and, in some cars, to provide extra electrical power under some conditions in addition to the battery. And since most modern hybrids are plug-ins, you can minimise the use of the generator while still having the confidence of a decently long range. But it's important that you look at modern hybrids designed and built for the job. Older ones like the early all electrics, were basically traditional ICE cars with the engine and transmission ripped out and replaced with the new gubbins.
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