I swapped cars with my husband yesterday - he took my 2019 Leaf to the shop for a speaker issue, I drove his 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander 17 miles to work. On the freeway, in rush hour traffic. I managed to drive most of the way to work on battery, but mashed the accelerator to merge into a rotary which kicked on the gas engine. The engine rumbled the rest of the way to work (another 3 minutes?) - I assume to warm things up a bit. Most of the energy went into the battery because it was all surface streets from that point to the office. Due to even worse traffic I took surface streets home and the battery was depleted after 13 miles, so the last 3 miles once again were with a rumbling engine. I am pleasantly surprised that out of my 34 mile round-trip commute only 5 of those miles were gasoline assisted, way better than the EPA estimated 22 mile electric range.
Totally off topic, but you used the word 'mashed' in the same sentence as 'rotary'. Are you from the south and transplanted to Canada?