Want An EV With No Range Anxiety? It’s A Plug-In Hybrid

Jonathan Kim
14 min readJan 17, 2024

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Done right, PHEVs are EVs 80–90% of the time

Plug-in hybrids plug in like EVs so you can drive them like EVs (image: author)

Now that most of the EV early adopters with money to spare have done their early adopting, the challenge is to get everyone else to take the plunge into electrified driving. This second phase has been more difficult than the Biden administration, EV-enthusiastic car manufacturers, and environmentalists had been hoping — and…

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Jonathan Kim

Used to be a film critic, now writes about tech (mostly Apple), and sometimes woodworking