[razorboy]

Of course that’s a model that really won’t work in mass production. Most people in the sunbelt don’t have outlets near where they park their cars. In the snowbelt where the infrastructure already exists it might be fine, but our population is fleeing the snow. Down here in the sun no apartments and very few houses have an outlet near the parking, that creates a cart-horse problem, the cars aren’t useful without the outlets but there’s no reason to make the outlets without the cars. The plug-in hybrid will be a tough sell.

[RayChuang88]

That's why the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle concept works WAY better. Since PHEVs are essentially today's hybrids with extended battery range, you can run them like a normal hybrid, but with the option of plugging in the battery pack to household current for an overnight charge so you can run the car 30-50 miles on battery power alone before it goes back to normal hybrid mode.