This sounds like a great
This sounds like a great vehicle design....For 2011. I keep thinking that the legacy Japanese automakers didn't get the memo on BEVs, or it was lost in translation. This is simply not competitive. Without the range extender, 100 BEV miles is minimal in the best conditions, let alone in the cold. To be fair, that is more than twice what my Cadillac ELR plug in hybrid can get off of the battery only, but that was a design created over 7 years ago. And the refreshed Chevy Bolt is close to the MX-30's price with more than twice the range. Now if Mazda stuffed that battery and rotary generator into their MX-5 Miata, I would be singing their praises! But I don't think that Mazda would ever make that kind of risky, cool move.