"Doctor Drivel" gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

Unless and until that's addressed, pure-electric cars can only replace
internal combustion for short-to-medium journey use.

Which is the vast amount of car journeys.

....and the easiest ones to replace. It's also NOT the vast majority of
total vehicle mileage. It's probably a minority of total mileage and
therefore fuel use, especially when you include the fact that the
"average vehicle" is probably larger for long journeys than for short
urban journeys.

That is why hybrids answer the current problem.

No, it's why hybrids answer the wrong question.

Battery for town, petrol for longer.

Woo. Two mile range at a pace an out-of-tune 2cv could beat, then the
petrol engine's needed to charge your Pious up again.

The electrci Mini answers much of the problems.

....an even wronger question...