Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show
geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months agoBatteries are expensive, range causes anxiety, a small battery is possible in a hybrid thus price is lower
Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show
geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months agoBatteries are expensive, range causes anxiety, a small battery is possible in a hybrid thus price is lower
slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah and new plug in hybrids get like 50 miles or so of range. So most people can use that for work commutes and everyday stuff, etc, but still have the gas engine for their long road trips
br3d@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Except people don’t plug in their hybrids and run them on fossil fuels. Hybrids are yet another way the FF industry keeps itself going while pretending things are being fixed
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Since the study was from Europe I’m going to assume that the primary thing holding people back from plugging in is that they can’t. Many, if not most, of them will live in multi-tenant dwellings and most of those dwellings likely don’t have the infrastructure to make it possible.
It’s the same problem that apartment dwellers here in the US have, there’s nowhere convenient to recharge.