I would bet/hope/expect if a cop removed the charger to search for contacts, it would be a violation of reasonable search and seizure. The burden of proof is on the state, having contacts to charge your battery which starts your gas engine should get you by safely I would expect.
Yep. That pretty much illustrates the depth of depravity to which this nation/world has descended.
I would bet/hope/expect if a cop started running across this sort of thing, they'd figure out a way to get it done. I can imagine a training module on the badging of EVs vs fake EVs, for example.
It's going to take a lot more than badging to determine if a car is genuinely a PHEV or not. There's quite a few companies doing EV conversions now, and hybrid retrofits are next.
