More than half the states have near identical registration fees for EVs. Along with all the other fees, my renewal is $700-800 per year here in North Carolina.

I can imagine. The local McDonalds franchise group here has solar awnings over their parking lots, and ChargePoint L2 stations at each restaurant. But the ChargePoint stations can’t actually be used because they stopped paying for the subscription. It says as much on their screen (something like “service inactive, 0 courtesy charges remaining”, I don’t remember exactly). It must be expensive for the owner to have decided at some point to cancel after investing so much in the fancy solar-powered shaded stations.

Give ChargePoint a call. That’s their whole business, helping private businesses/individuals become hosts for charging stations, and then handling the software/billing/services aspect of it for you after the install. Financially there’s no ROI, no fast charging network is profitable. The upfront costs are too great and paid utilization too low.

Jumpstarting a car isn’t like shocking someone’s chest with a defibrillator. There is no massive current. The mobile ones are just a smaller 12V battery that will provide enough juice for your car to turn on in place of your flat 12V battery. Once the car is on, it takes over the job of charging the flat battery so the jumpstarter battery can be removed. You can’t jumpstart an EV with the HV service disconnect pulled, because your whole goal is to get enough power from the jumpstarter’s battery to pass the car’s startup self-checks that happen before the HV battery is engaged and takes over.

I think you’ve flipped those in your head. EPA range closely matches real world range tests. WTLP numbers average 22% higher.

Toyota has the Prius Prime and RAV4 Prime PHEVs

Still solar powered! Hydro is a gravity battery, with the sun continually lifting water to the higher elevation via evaporation so it can precipitate and flow through that dam over and over. Wind turbines are also solar powered.

The Subaru Solterra doesn’t even get its own Wikipedia entry, it’s just a sub-heading of the Toyota bZ4X page.

The Toyota bZ4X, also marketed in Japan, US, Canada, Europe, and China as the Subaru Solterra, is a battery electric compact crossover SUV manufactured by Toyota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_bZ4X