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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5494059" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>But you keep insisting that we have an EV with range and performance.  Requires the monster battery.  Yet you've said a car doesn't need to have the range because most trips are short.  If so, and it is so, why do we need the big batteries?  The combustion engine is there as a backup but the plug in hybrid car can make most trips with the small battery.  So without circumventing my point could you please justify why we must have only electrics without the combustion engine but requiring a vastly larger battery?  If it's just about reliability most regular cars crank up and perform adequately daily.  Are the glitches they occasionally have enough to dump the entire system in favor of cars that cost a lot more?</p></blockquote><p></p>