Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of reverse logic
To further develop the idea of letting EVs go to people who will drive them the most, the true bottleneck is <i>batteries</i>. So, the problem is to get <i>batteries</i> on the road in a way that they will displace the most gas miles as soon as possible.<p>This suggests a far more effective strategy of first replacing the fleet with plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), then in a second stage, replace those with full EVs. For most city vehicles, a PHEV will electrify the majority of the miles with a fraction of the battery capacity.<p>Driving an EV is a green status symbol now. I wonder if they could in the future be viewed as "battery hogs".