> Both models have five variants respectively, providing an all-electric driving range between 80 km and 120 km
All gas cars can get big range numbers like the headline with a bigger tank. It is 81mpg with an empty battery though which is the more impressive stat.
The last time I had to commute to downtown Los Angeles (about a 50-mile drive), my Prius got 72 MPG.
My car is nearly 10 years old, so either I somehow managed to obtain the world's best Prius (with no loss of hybrid battery capacity over time), or you're underestimating the capabilities of today's hybrid gas-electric vehicles.
Because they were utter charlatans, and for such egregious behavior, an example must be set. And now they have to go all-electric, so everybody wins - including them.
My first car had a 300-400 mile range, because it had a factory option 33 gallon (US) tank and up to 12 mpg. If there was room for a 33 gallon tank on my C-MAX PHEV, I'd have range in line with this announcement; cannonball run in maybe one gas stop here we come; although I don't think the efficiency holds up at cannonball run speeds which are awful close to the c-max maximum speed and recent runs have used 65+ gallon tanks.
IMHO, in reality, anything between 300-600 miles of reliable range is fine for a car that uses readily available liquid fuel. That seems to be where the US market seems to have optimized for in the past few decades.
All gas cars can get big range numbers like the headline with a bigger tank. It is 81mpg with an empty battery though which is the more impressive stat.