When Tony Le set out with his wife to buy a new car last year, he looked at Tesla and other all-electric models.
In the end, the 37-year-old Modesto, California, tech worker opted for a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid due to worries over getting stranded with a purely electric vehicle, a dead battery and no charging station in sight.
¡°Sometimes I want to play with the electric vehicles just based on the speed and torque. But for practical use ... it just didn¡¯t make sense,¡± said Le, who often drives to Washington state from California for work.
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