You have got to be kidding!
You have got to be kidding! Is this article from The Onion? Of course phev is nirvana for most people and yes we want phev with 40-60 miles on electric only. And an additional 300 in the gas tank. The writer of this article, I hesitate to call him an offer cuz it's such a poor promo piece for b e v, obviously doesn't live in the world but the rest of us live in. Many of us would like to go to work and back, a 15-mile ride one way, en pure electric but guess what that's not the extent of our life. We go places on the weekends. We go places that are more than 15 miles away in point we even go places that don't have any charging capabilities! What do you suppose we do when we get too far from a charging station? Call AAA? Are they going to bring us some electrons in a can? Not happening! So for those of us that are not retired and only go to the grocery store and back, the phev with a larger battery and a decent size gas tank is the way to go. If the larger battery can accommodate the commute that you do daily, and let's remember folks that's different for everyone! Then the phev is a success. Until the infrastructure around the country, and around the world, is upgraded and standardized, bees are not going to take over. It's as simple as that.
Mr Yahoo writer also did not notice that a lot of people have solar panels these days whoops forgot about them!
For those of us with solar who have excess generation I want to charge up a big amount of a battery at night so then I don't have to recharge the next few days or if I'm doing a longer Drive I don't run out of my free electricity during the middle of my day before I come home. Right now I am generating 6000 kilowatt-hours excess every year. 6000. You know what that means? I have 16 kilowatt hours on average every single day of the year that I want to plug into my phev battery. Some days I'm going to drive longer than a 16 kilowatt-hours allows me some days I drive shorter than that. But if I don't put them in my car I can't use them, and if I can only put 10kWh in at a time, that's 10 kilowatt-hours like with some of these janky Little PHEVs (ioniq, subaru, volvo, etc) that are available now, I will never be able to use up my 6000.
Whoever wrote this up must have done very poorly and all his Elementary School writing classes. I hope when he gets to high school he learns how to show both sides of an argument and does plenty of research in advance. His article is a complete joke.