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I'm saying a smart company would have purpose built a plug-in hybrid from scratch instead of trying to shoehorn in everything into an existing platform. They could have made a ton of money because the battery is subsidized at over twice the actual cost to build.
The Pacifica has a 16 kWh battery and they shoehorned it into their regular Pacifica chassis by eliminating the ability to fold one row of seats into the floor.
Just imagine what would be possible if engineers had a blank slate rather than be told to cram everything into an existing mid-sized sedan.
I too was disappointed that the Prime removed the 5th seat. While I only use the 5th seat about once a year, it's still nice to have. At least don't put hard plastic in that area.
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