Couple of big takeaways:
1.) It doesn't really cost much to own a vehicle that meets or beats carbon emission goals.
2.) No gasoline car sold today meets the US climate goals.
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Does cost to own include cost to acquire? If so, over how many miles is the cost of the vehicle amortorized?
I don't buy the Mirai figures – what upstream hydrogen extraction did they use to get well-to-wheels? I also don't believe the Prius numbers, so I suspect there's an apples-to-oranges going on here. Perhaps they are charging the EVs with the full cost of the battery materials on first pass? (Tesla batteries, for example, are fully recyclable at much lower cost.)
Edit: Ah, I set the filters to something more reasonable – CA emissions, higher gas prices (since they are heavily subsidized right now and there has to be a carbon price). The plug-in category is still totally messed up, as the Volt can actually do reasonable things like driving on the highway without burning gas while the PiP cannot.