LA Times: Nissan Leaf far outselling Chevrolet Volt

Valid point - and considering auto manufacturers realize they need clean cars to offset their bread & butter (and world economy crushing) cars like big SUV's & trucks, the only way manufacturers can continue building land barges is by offsetting their bottom-of-the-toilet CAFE scores with things like EV's. CAFE penalty costs on fuel guzzlers eat into land barge profits, because CAFE rules require fines to be tacked onto poor CAFE mpg fleet scores. Selling clean cars so you can sell guzzlers seems like a poor motive for doing the right thing.

You gotta have a price low enough for people to swallow, in order to sell tons of PHEV's. Some say that $40K + price is too high to sell in high numbers. If true, then CAFE penalties will inflate fleet costs (profits) to the point that big SUV/truck costs will be unaffordable. Then what.