Yeah, a variation of a hybrid, which is where people tried to tell the manufacturers the direction to go instead of electrics.Ford has announced that the F-150 Lightning will transition from an all-electric vehicle to an Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV), which will combine electric power with a gasoline engine that acts as a generator. This change aims to enhance range and towing capabilities, with the new model expected to offer over 700 miles of range.
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My Ford Maverick hybrid gets 650 miles to the 13-gallon tank. That's in Economy mode, one of five operating options you can set from the dash. I can see 700+ miles easily attainable with a tank over 15 gallons.Ford has announced that the F-150 Lightning will transition from an all-electric vehicle to an Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV), which will combine electric power with a gasoline engine that acts as a generator. This change aims to enhance range and towing capabilities, with the new model expected to offer over 700 miles of range.
I suppose you could call it that. But in reality it is an electric vehicle 90% of the time on battery only. The gas motor is not used to propel the vehicle like a hybrid but it is used to charge the batteries when it runs low on charge. It's an EREV which stands for extended range electric vehicle.
China has basically pulled the entire nation out of poverty in the last 30 years, so there's not really a used car market in the same way there as here. Most people are buying new cars, and those cars are being dumped/subsidized/however you want to call what it is China does in state capitalism as a pseudosocialist state. Europe has forced it down the consumers throats but also benefits from being a radically different place than America. Yeah, there's some redneckery in places like France and Spain, sure, but density is way different there in general and you just don't have people traveling the same way by car there as here. Also, most of western Europe (not counting Scandinavia here) has more temperate climates than the US. Range anxiety is a different level of concern in the US when the winters look like this (and I'm not even including the Barcelonas or Romes here that are WAY warmer):
Europeans are already used to higher gas prices and smaller vehicles. The fuel savings partially offsets the vehicle price over the life of the car, but obviously there's a bigger up-front payment.
I don't agree with an increased up front payment. European EV vehicles offer a full range of prices .
You just don't see people opting for long commutes to/from the office from suburbia as often there as you do here. It absolutely happens and there are absolutely suburbs that are full of cars and shopping malls and big box stores just like here, but the scope and numbers are different because also people do generally have significantly better options for mass transit. Which, again; density. Germany has 80 over million people, most of whom live in the western half of the country (you know, the half we ran and not this side) and they live in a country that is 50% the size of Texas. It makes financial sense to run trains from A-B when you have a sufficient population to fill the train once an hour every hour 365 days a year. Our population density means you can only feasibly do that in limited spaces here (e.g. the Acela Corridor). I'd love to have hourly trains from my home to Chicago, but there simply aren't 3000 people a day who need to make that trip.