The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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The ICE component In PHEV is the significant portion of the HP so it dictates the cycle time requirement. Same for HEV. If the hEV portion is the bottleneck in development than that would dictate cycle time. Since there is more complexity in HEV and PHEV compared to pure ICE or BEV, I won't be surprise if cycle time of combined power train is longer than either pure ICE or BEV. There is one model out there that has this flipped, the mx-30 that is suppose to use ICE purely as the range extender and having the EV portion as the main power/range engine. The EV only has a range of 100 mi and not competitive. It will be interesting to see what happens with the range extender engine but that portion is the bottleneck as the EV car has been out in the market a couple of years.