Dean serious question: Do you
Dean serious question: Do you know if Automakers select the minimum battery to allow an owner to hit a certain cutoff for the federal tax deduction? In other words, did the minimum battery size to allow for the RAV4 Prime to quality for the tax break to determine its battery size? My background is engineering, marketing and Mfg. My experience says nobody purposely designs a vehicle that would have a "39" as a key spec, when they could just as easily have hit the very close "40" and thus had the higher punch of that number for marketing reasons. My get tells me the "39" is a result of a carefully planned battery size before the rest of the considerations were made. ps - I think anything over 25 miles of EV range is viable. The week I had the Outlander PHEV I drove it on all-electric power for many of the days.