CICC keynoter: Family car won't go electric

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SAN JOSE, CALIF. —The average American family probably won't replace the "family car" with an all-electric vehicle, but some classes of hybrid EVs will help some users save money and thus will see significant adoption. That's the view of Ian Wright, an engineer, serial entrepreneur and self-described EV skeptic. Despite his roles as co-founder of Tesla Motors, which has popularized EVs, and chief executive of Wrightspeed, which is building hybrid power train subsystems for medium-duty fleet trucks, Wright wears the skeptic's badge with no trace of irony. He is emphatic that the high cost of batteries will keep