BURSA'S WORLD: Range Extenders – the wilderness years

Author: Mark Bursa | 30 April 2010

Lively discussions of late on the relative merits of battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, range-extenders, and so on. And while there are commendable features of all the systems, I keep on coming down on the side of the range-extender as the right way forward.

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