> It's okay as an intermediate step but all electric is much better long term. Sure, but given the long term might be longer than the average consumer holds on

> It's okay as an intermediate step but all electric is much better long term. Sure, but given the long term might be longer than the average consumer holds onto a new car, there's a lot of value in a good intermediate solution. The average person drives less than 30 miles a day. Building a 360 mile EV battery just to handle long-tail events seems very wasteful. Given that Lithium battery production is largely the bottleneck to full electrification, you could use the batteries from 1 Tesla and make 6 plug-in hybrids from them. And then get pretty close to 6x-ing the amount of carbon saved.