Comment on rollin' coal
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 months agoReally depends, had a plugin hybrid.
The use case for phev versus hev is pretty narrow. the added battery weight and space was significant.
Plugin part was great for a daily commute of under 10 miles (had ~20 mile ev range) but with ~50 mpg, that was saving less than a gallon a week.
And on longer trips the added weight was dead weight. That let me take less stuff when i needed to take stuff.
Maybe they engineered the ones your looking at better, but that was my experience. For me its a choice between pure EV or HEV.
Good luck.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The model I’m looking at is ~45 miles (70km) of EV-only range. Electricity where I am drops under 10c/kWh overnight, and the model I’m looking at is a PHEV.
I work from home and only rarely do I have to commute to a job site, 90% of my driving right now is around town and much less than 45 miles total per day. Having the EV charging start when rates drop and stop when they rise again, would be something I would be doing. Since I don’t have to drive every day for work, several nights of fairly slow charging would fill the ~ 17 kWh battery, even at 10A on 120V.
So every time I go out, I’d likely be starting with a to full charge, and my first 45 ish miles are basically free.