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Plug-In Hybrids Need Love Too

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Good-Bye to Gasoline! Our new-to-us 2015 Chevy Volt Image source: Karl Bloss In November 2018, we said farewell to our trusty 2011 Toyota Sienna minivan.  This was the end of an era for our family, not only because our children were grown to the point of a minivan not making sense any more, but also because it was our last vehicle with a combustion engine.  With our garage then including a Nissan LEAF and a Tesla Model S, I told myself that I would never again buy a vehicle that burned gasoline. I was wrong. Daryl Elliott's CleanTechnica article " The PHEV Era Needs to End, Now " makes some compelling arguments that the Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle (PHEV) bridge technology to Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) has run its course and those of us who are in the segment of early adopters should leave this crutch behind. Farewell to our 2011 Toyota Sienna Image source: Karl Bloss ...Or Maybe Not All those arguments are valid except that as of mid-2020, the