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> Americans will get their first taste of extended range EVs (full EV powertrain with a tiny ICE that charges the battery) and they explode in popularity.

This happened, it was called the Chevy Volt. Nobody bought it.

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Horrific whitewashing of the story.

Chevy made it about as fuckin’ unattractive as they could manage,

AND THEY WERE STILL GREAT CARS.

You can buy them at the right price even today, and people have been adding range to them.

I totally agree that you can make the argument that people didn't buy them because they weren't sexy. Post-2008, new cars became luxury items almost exclusively. So given that, there's no reason they would catch on now unless somebody makes a sexy one.

They’re a brand new or single owner car for $13k, you can’t think of room for that?

Oh that's interesting, I didn't know that. In this case I am talking about the Ram 1500. I think this one will make a splash. A truck with almost 700 miles of range. Americans think they hate EVs but they really hate the lack of EV infrastructure.

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