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Originally Posted by freebeard

Well, me too, but for different reasons. Your 'clean sheet' already has a Prius on it.

Most people would say it is batteries holding back electric cars. I think this mess needs to be sorted out:
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Ecomodder is one of the few place were such details creates the inspiration to sort such issues out. I think there are two high visibility facts

If you live in a city and your transport requirements are slight, an EV may ultimately prove the best solution. In the short term likely the cheapest too.

For those that dont, a hybrid offers load balancing between stop/start, and uphill/downhill, that provides the best compromise for the most efficient and therefore the next lowest cost option.

I guess the question there is, is an On/Off IC engine best like Prius, or a fulltime low power with load balancing battery better.

It would be nice to look at things logically in more modular terms,

• The search for the efficient electric drive
• The search for the efficient battery

and what is not necessarily a subset of both

• The search for the extended range solution