cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/38857482
They seem like a great compromise, yet many owners don’t charge them regularly:
The average real-world electric driving share is about 45%–49% for private cars and about 11%–15% for company cars. In contrast, the official WLTP type-approval procedure assumes the share of driving in the mostly, but not fully, electric charge-depleting mode at around 70%–85%. The low electric driving share is one of the main reasons for the high deviation between type approval and real-world fuel consumption.
Source is a study of 9000 PHEV cars in europe.
Huh. Crazy. I don’t get why they wouldn’t just buy a cheaper regular hybrid in that case.
My family actually has 2 PHEVs sharing one 120v charger in the garage, and we still manage to keep both of them fully charged before driving them, nearly 100% of the time.
