Super Bowl ad admits: Gas is the answer to ‘premature electrification’

Super Bowl ad admits: Gas is the answer to ‘premature electrification’ - By James David Dickson

• The Ram 1500 REV’s range extender is an internal combustion engine
• The internal combustion engine is the answer to “premature electrification,” says an EV maker. 
  

Halfway through this year’s Super Bowl, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm declared electric vehicles the big winner of the night...

On further review, what should have been electric vehicles’ big night only showed how necessary the internal combustion engine still is.
An ad for the Ram 1500 REV was one of the night’s most memorable.
...No need to worry, Ram says. 

There is a “range extender” available.
What the minute-long commercial failed to mention is that the range extender is an internal combustion engine, powered by gasoline...