All the complexity of a gas engine, plus the cost of a battery. Just so you can use the range once or twice a year? What happens when you don’t use the gas engine for months and then go to start it with gelled gas? You’re trying to solve a problem that the article shows doesn’t exist for 99%
This is the real disconnect. As long as executives’ pay are related to profits or stock prices, they will never make safety the #1 priority.