Not a majority, but 37% of your driving on electric is a significant chunk. Would
And to take a Prius Prime for an example, you can still have a very efficient vehicle when you're running in normal hybrid mode:
> C/D observed 75-mph highway driving (hybrid mode): 47 mpg / 49 mpg / 47 mpg
If you're trying to make the most difference with limited battery production, that's 8.8 kWh of batteries for a Prius Prime. You can make more than 6 of them with the batteries that go into a single "low range" Model 3 (54 kWh).
Six cars doing a bit over 1/3 of their miles in electric mode, or one car doing all of its miles in electric mode?
That's a relatively short electric range car, if 25 miles isn't doing enough for most people there's probably a good middle ground where you use half the batteries of a long range EV but cover 90% of your milage in EV mode.
This is of course ignoring that the Model 3 is a lot more fun to drive than a Prius Prime, but just to make the point about battery usage.
Could work as more and more stuff becomes electric in cars instead of running off accessory belt.
>. Most PHEVs have type-approval all-electric ranges of 30–60 km and electrify 5,000–10,000 km a year. PHEVs with high all-electric ranges of 80 km or more achieve 12,000–20,000 km mean annual electric mileages, which is comparable to the annual mileage of the car fleet in Germany and the United States.
There have been studies on how PHEVs are used in the real world and this is just not what's happening, see e.g.: https://theicct.org/publications/phev-real-world-usage-sept2...