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Originally Posted by XutvJet
As of late, many automakers have really had some impressive and costly blunders in the last 5 years. These are the few I can recall easily:
9) Automakers focusing on making excessively expensive, needlessly fast accelerating, and overweight EVs. Most drivers don't want this much less and can afford it. Hybrids and cheaper, lighter, and slower EVs with very small onboard ICE generators is how you do it if you want to market EVs to the masses.
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IDK, most of these really aren't significantly heavier than an ICE vehicle and in many cases, they are actually lighter. When you get to hybrid, you gotta have the weight of battery, electric motors, gas motor, gas tank, etc. That's only really practical over an EV when charging or range limitations apply, but for a large amount of EV use, those simply don't end up being limitations, so a full-EV is a more efficient (weight-wise) platform, since it doesn't have to have "both" drivetrains in one.