We have been driving a Plug
We have been driving a Plug In hybrid for 5 years now (Honda Clarity). We love the car, it’s ashamed that Honda discontinued it due to poor sales. Yet whenever I saw a commercial from Honda during its years in production, the Clarity was never mentioned. Most people I run into have never heard of it. We live Northernmost NY near the Canadian border. Winters can be harsh up here, so we keep it in a heated garage with a level 2 charger. Even with all that we still lose sometimes over half of our range in the winter. We are glad it has a normal combustion engine to keep us going. I feel a total electric vehicle up here is currently unpractical in rural areas, which is where we live. I also feel that this country is putting the cart before the horse so to say. If everyone in the country were to convert to EV’s today or a two years from today, the power grid would not be able to handle it. Even with the vast majority of folks still driving combustion engine vehicles the large cities still have rolling brownouts. Adding a bunch of EV’s to the grid even if only plugged in at night would most likely crash the grid. This country needs to severely upgrade the power grid before pushing EV’s. The cost to get it right will be enormous, so the course we are on is headed for disaster.