EREV Insights

Below is our best current information on EREVs coming to market.  The EREV Guide will always reside at the top of this page, with articles below that, beginning with the most recent. We will update the chart regularly as new information becomes available. 

 As North American automakers get ready to sell EREVs, it’s helpful to note that Chinese automakers have been doing it for years.  Here are six takeaways from what's worked.

  EREVs are already an established part of the EV market in China, with a growing presence elsewhere, including Europe. But in North America - and particularly the U.S. - they've mostly remained announcements, plans and promises. That’s about to change.

There are now enough real vehicles, specifications and dates that EREVNow is launching the 2026 EREV Guide: What's Coming to North America - and When.

Ford confirmed this week that the Lightning, as currently configured, will give way to an F-150 EREV - an electric truck whose wheels are always driven by electric motors, with a small internal-combustion engine used solely to generate electricity when the battery runs low. The result is an electric-first truck with an estimated range north of 700 miles, built in Dearborn, Michigan. 

(Here’s an article for the time capsule.  We’re writing this today to paint a picture of the future we could all have in 2030)

It’s September of 2030, and by now, most Americans have at least one electric vehicle in the driveway. For many, it’s not a battery-only model but an EREV - an Extended-Range Electric Vehicle - driven mostly on electricity, with a small gasoline generator that quietly takes over when the battery runs low.  

A new kind of electric car is emerging — one designed for real life, where the gas station can be your charging station. It’s called an Extended-Range Electric Vehicle, or EREV. And it just might be the EV that fits your life.

Automakers around the world have spent the past decade promising an all-electric future. But in 2024, the limits of that future became painfully clear. Battery electric vehicle (EV) sales in the U.S. fell short of forecasts, supply chains were strained, and profit margins thinned. One quiet winner, not currently available in the US, emerged from the chaos: the extended-range electric vehicle (EREV).

Ford CEO Jim Farley says the company is about to have its “Model T moment.” On August 11, he’ll take the stage at their Louisville Assembly Plant to unveil what he’s calling a family of “breakthrough electric vehicles built in America.” And it got me thinking - could Ford’s breakthrough electric vehicle be an EREV?

Extended Range Electric Vehicles eliminate range anxiety, while reducing annual emissions 85-90%.   They're the perfect solution for most drivers. But current regulations are standing in the way of progress.  Minor regulatory updates could change that.  Right now.

Fewer than 1% of US cars are electric, and a nationwide charging network is a decade away.  Problem is, we don't have a decade.  To get back on track, we need EREVs.  Now.   And it's surprisingly do-able.