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One aspect of having gasoline powered range extenders or whatever you want to call them has not been brought up by anyone.
As more and more pure BEVs get sold, owners will start asking for access to charging facilities. Not the in-and-out fast chargers that work like gas stations, but I'm talking about at hotels, resort destinations, family theme parks like Disneyworld and 6 Flags, shopping malls, parking garages, and even apartments. It will take a long time, but eventually businesses will respond to customer demand and install charging facilites. If electric power is going to someday replace oil based power, that infrastructure will have to get established.
With PHEVs or REEVs, you don't need these, you'll just fill it up with gas instead. Without the demand for chargers, that infrastructure will never happen. Without the charging infrastructure, we will continue to be tied to oil. The demand for oil could be reduced, but the ties cannot be broken.
The REEV is really a crutch. Maybe for a while the crutch is needed, but you can also become dependent on the crutch, and never learn to walk without it.
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