It is more of an "I love Firefox" thing than a "complaining about spelling thing", as I said my own spelling is awful. (just misspelled aweful, but Firefox caught it).

Sorry to hear about your spine.

You are correct about an EV's limits, they would make better second cars generally. A car like the Volt or Aptera would be more versatile (misspelled versatile so bad the spell check couldn't even guess what word I intended).

All that said an EV would be very practical for people in combination with a service like http://www.phillycarshare.org/

You could use an EV for commutes and short trips and rent a hybrid for longer trips.

The reason I'm even still talking about EVs after agreeing that a plug in series hybrid would be better is because the prices I've seen for the Volt and Aptera are around $30,000 while the price of the Mitsubishi iMiEV is said to be around $17,000 which is much more affordable.

My dream car is one with suitcase sized batteries that I could take into work and plug in there. I'd have zero daily commuting energy cost!