Well...do ya?

Depends upon the relative cost of electricity vs gasoline in your area. In southern CA, the marginal cost of a kWh is quite high once you reach the highest-priced tier. Therefore, the kitchen stove, home heating, and the clothes dryer normally is natural-gas powered.

In parts of the US midwest, a kWh is priced at about 1/4 of the highest CA price, so people use electricity to supply all home energy needs including heating and cooking.

 

Depends on the ability to plug in a car.

My home (garden style condo) does not have an external electrical outlet to plug a car into. I park in a lot that is shared by all residents in the courtyard, with no reserved spaces, so I don't even have a guarantee that I will find a space near my building.

People living in apartments, condos, and even some townhouses will not have the ability to plug in car. Many people in urban areas have to park on the street because there is no driveway, parking lot or garage for their building.

 

I would, I plug it in now every 3 weeks to a petrol pump so plugging in to a wall socket each night wouldn't be too bad.
I would need to extract my sons Celica from the garage though.

The people with EBH are plugging in now.

 

The headline says:

But then the article says:

And further on:

So, which is it? Are they going to build it, or is the CEO merely "pushing" the engineers to try to develop it?

Either way, it's for fleets only. You and I won't be able to buy it.

For myself, I'd only buy it if it will drive 30 miles at its full potential acceleration and speed without running the gas engine. I won't buy a plug-in car just to double my gas mileage by using partial electric power or only at slow speed because I already have a slow-speed car that's 100% electric.