Motions in Limine while off roading??? F that!
I have a hybrid aviator 22 mile electric only range for my wife and she has a 9 mile commute each way to work. It's a perfect solution for us as about 60% of our mileage is electric on that car. But I do agree it's only a good option for people with short commutes under 10 miles etc ..
My wife has a 1.25 mile commute. Every day it kills me that she has to start and run cold cycle, to and from work. I am not sure what post pandemic driving is shaping up to look like, but that short commute during the week, range anxiety/weekend use was a big barrier to entry for consumers for pure electric. My wife will be looking at a plug in hybrid (or full EV) in her next vehicle. My personal opinion, informed by a non-engineers review of several engineering studies is, the full electric is the most "dead end" design. Net, energy and emissions, it just doesn't make sense without nuclear. As we continue to try and get off fossil fuels, the process and distribution of electric power and the lack of reliable and abundant alternatives to gas and oil just don't add up. Hydrogen? Probably the more likely solution currently.
I've never understood how hydrogen could be better then battery or ICE. It's not as if we can drill into the massive pure hydrogen reserves laying around somewhere. Hydrogen requires a ton of energy to produce, then you have to ship it which is inefficient and requires pipes that won't be corroded by the hydrogen, finally the compression ratios used to store hydrogen in are insanely high. 10k psi in the case of the Toyota Mirai. Average deep ocean pressures are 3k to 9k with the Mariana trench winning the prize at 15k.
