I imagine that's the way most of them will be used. I'm no physicist or chemist, but it seems to me that there's got to be entropy involved in going from gasoline to battery power, when a conventional car goes straight from gasoline. The whole concept sounds rather pointless. Even if you're going straight battery, the electricity has to be generated from something, and at present, that something is fossil fuel. So you're not saving any fuel, you're getting less efficiency from your fuel by turning it into electricity, you're not doing anything for the environment, and you're paying two to three times as much for the vehicle. I wish I were as smart as a GE executive; then I'd understand how this is all supposed to work.
“I’m no physicist or chemist,”
That much is obvious.
My buddy has one. He lives about 15 miles from work. He bought his first tank of gasoline after 5 months of owning it. Gets to charge free @ work, probably on a charger paid for with “stim” funds, LOL.