It’s ironic that the article gives the perfect argument against itself:
In the US, nearly all driving trips are less than 50 miles
Which means that EREVs are, in fact, used as electric vehicles for “nearly all driving trips”.
It’s as if the article is ignoring that EREVs run off the battery first and have a (fairly efficient) gas generator as backup. Plus China-blaming, plus saying “the Ukraine” (by now, you should know better).
Yeah but the case with EREVs is that you have introduced a fundamentally different system into your powertrain. That adds an additional point of failure for the critical high voltage electrical system which is a stupid tradeoff to make when the system will almost never be used
It’s ironic that the article gives the perfect argument against itself:
Which means that EREVs are, in fact, used as electric vehicles for “nearly all driving trips”.
It’s as if the article is ignoring that EREVs run off the battery first and have a (fairly efficient) gas generator as backup. Plus China-blaming, plus saying “the Ukraine” (by now, you should know better).
Yeah but the case with EREVs is that you have introduced a fundamentally different system into your powertrain. That adds an additional point of failure for the critical high voltage electrical system which is a stupid tradeoff to make when the system will almost never be used