General Motors CEO Mary Barra has a grim assessment for drivers of plug-in hybrids: "They don't plug them in."
- General Motors CEO Mary Barra said the company remains committed to an "an EV future," despite industry headwinds.
- The automaker is looking at hybrid options in the meantime, Barra said, as it currently offers none.
- There's just one problem with plug-in hybrids, and that's making sure people actually plug them in.
On paper, China's Chevrolet Equinox Plus Plug-In Hybrid seems like a shoo-in for the United States. Here's a familiar nameplate, in a practical crossover body, that pairs a gas engine with battery power for more than 600 miles of total range on China's testing cycle.
But for a litany of reasons, it's not coming to this market, leaving Americans with the gas Equinox and the popular Equinox EV instead. In the U.S., General Motors has broadly stayed away from hybrid power of all sorts in order to focus on what CEO Mary Barra calls the "end game": a fully-electric future.
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