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Trying to define something new into older classifications is just going to result in semantics arguments.
How about going with what the manufacturer is calling it - an Extended Range Electric Vehicle. And what gives you the extended range - a gas engine.
The debates are entertaining, but pointless. It's new, doesn't fit the exact criteria of past vehicle types, so they started a new one.
Those that don't think it's an electric vehicle, have never driven it. A neighbor of mine is a GM engineer and has been bringing one home for about a month and has let me drive it. When driving this car, there is no doubt you are driving an electric vehicle.
If someone has a tizzy because it also has a gas engine, they are missing the whole point of the huge advantage of Extended Range. I'd love to see someone drive one, and get out and say - yup I was right that is not an electric vehicle.
This Ottowa journalist summed it up perfectly. And it looks like from an actual drive, instead of internet semantics debates.
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