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Originally Posted by DGthe3
I care more about how the car was designed than how an individual uses it. I could load up a bunch of stuff in the back of my car, that doesn't make it a pickup truck. And you could drive a plug in Prius solely on electricity too, that doesn't make it an EV either.
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well then, make a petition to have GM remove the gas engine. That'll make everybody a lot more happy, I'm sure. Plus it'll save weight. And maybe they'll have more room to add more batteries!
And really, is ANY car with a gas engine an EV really? I mean if it's burning gasoling, it's not running solely on electricity, I guess it doesn't matter whether or not it is more efficient to propel the wheels directly with the gas engine versus solely using it to recharge the batteries... The car could actually be using less gas by propelling the wheels directly versus using it's energy to recharge the batteries at a sufficient rate to propel the vehicle past 70mph, but screw efficiency, it's more important to worry about semantics.