Yes. This is your General Motors Volt concept, a concept that, in my view, is becoming increasingly criticized for being neither one thing nor the other. Either it's a battery vehicle in which you have the inconvenience of lugging around a great internal combustion engine, or it's an internal combustion engine vehicle although you have the inconvenience of lugging around a great battery. It would be better to devise two kinds of vehicle, one for shorter distances that is electric, and one for longer distances that is an internal combustion engine, if that's the way you want to go--to stick with personal vehicles.
But what we've seen elsewhere is that high-speed or higher-speed rail can work, can make huge dents into other modes of travel, and can bring places together. It's not a futuristic thing. It's not something you have to dream about, such as an electric vehicle that will go 500 kilometres. It's available now.