I’m not sure about how ALL plug-in hybrids work, but I know that most models a single, electric, power train. The gas aspect is a generator that can power the electric motor and offload it’s excess power into the battery. That way when the generator is needed it can almost always be at it’s optimal power setting.

The charges were very much because they were looking for any possible reason to put him behind bars for the act of buying that house.

The United Earth Government was an authoritarian, inclusive, and militaristic government. They acted as a mercantile empire with their colonies. Still, as authoritarian as the UEG is, as shady as it’s intelligence agency (ONI) is, what the Republicans have turned into is far worse.

The UEG would not encourage killing migrants and refugees. The Republicans are.

Where Republicans seek to institute a form of ethnostate theocracy, the UEG has freedom of religion and couldn’t care less about the color of your skin or which region you come from.