Public Citizen filed a complaint against the FTC regarding Toyota’s advertising strategy with their Hybrid vehicles
Original source: https://www.citizen.org/article/ftc-toyotas-misleading-advertising/
Edit: Removed “primarily with non-plug-in hybrids” from description
I work in the industry and HEV, PHEV and BEV are normal terms but I do wonder if regular consumers are received by this
Glancing at the advertisements they’re citing, it looks like Toyota is trying to equivocate their hybrid/HEV vehicles with BEV/PHEVs.
I guess it depends how many people get a HEV and are surprised there isn’t a charge port