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Originally Posted by nostatic
I think they do, but we've got the X1 for that. The wife's commute is 66 miles round trip so going pure electric can cover that but not with a lot of room for error (range is about 80-90 miles depending on the details). The range extender adds another 60 or so miles on top of that so you've got a safety blanket. There is a big brouhaha with some owners as the US version has the engine wait to kick in until the battery is down to 6% whereas the EU version you can use the engine whenever. While that is just a software change, it has to do with CARB credits and other political/financial/regulatory nonsense.
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I've been looking harder at electric cars because my wife only drives around town at 25-35 mph for 99% of the time. If not, then a plug-in hybrid or the Prius-V (larger Prius) which might be plug-in by that time. The BMW is rather expensive, I grant, given I don't lease my cars. Regardless, our next car will be a hybrid or electric. Gas could go to $10/gal and it would have almost no effect on our household spending. Every year or two, we have these frustrated threads about how gas prices have spiked and how much it is costing people; I enjoy not caring. Also, electricity in Portland is inexpensive. But the current Prius will probably go another 100K miles/8 years, so I will need to hand it off to a kid . . .