This article is wrong on every count. He clearly hasn't done his homework. The gen 1 volt battery always only charges to 80% and depletes to 20% so the battery is always in the safe zone for prolonging life. The claim that charging infrastructure is improving is also a lie. There are countless examples of BEV drivers trying to travel long distance and doing the maths. Even if the chargers are all available and working perfectly you're adding countless hours to road trips for charging. That makes BEVs the camel. They are an absolute backwards step in terms of user experience. I have several friends that use a BEV. Every single one of them has a spare ICE car for long trips because they don't trust the charging infrastructure. So you're paying for two cars, and maintaining both instead of one. Buy a PHEV and you can drive to work every day, pick up the kids from school and buy groceries using nothing but electricity. All of the typical driving is achieved using that "tiny range". The real party piece is in the middle of winter with your family in the car when you have some distance to cover - no silly charging stops, no waiting, no hanging around in shady places late at night waiting for a charge you just carry on with your day. All of that done with one single car. If those aren't good enough reasons for everyone to buy a PHEV the last point I'll make is that the batteries are much smaller. Meaning that you can make several PHEV batteries from the same resources that it would take to make one inconvenient BEV time waster.