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A plug-in hybrid.
Edit: removed the opinionated and likely wrong part.
This is the most accurate representation of a Lemmy, a comment with a hard opinion but nothing to really back it up getting upvotes followed by plenty of experiences and counterarguments refuting it but not getting quite the same amount of upvotes. Imagine if people could dialogue and not just circlejerk hate.
Depends on how you use it. Most of my driving is on electric even with only a 35km range. It gets maybe 20 gallons of gas per year and drives 6500 miles per year (~900/year on gas).
Yeah same here , makes a lot of sense to be able to do all to local city trips , groceries etc electric.
These kind of trips would otherwise be on cold engine.
The occasional longer trip uses fuel but still has regenerative braking and uses the electric engine as boost when accelerating.
So petrol engine runs much more ideal conditions and fuel efficient.
I got a plug-in hybrid as my company car before the current one and despite my bias I gotta admit it was rather practical for my use case. Most workdays I was able to drive fully electric (we have chargers at our branches) and when driving to my rural hometown (with absolutely 0 hopes to charge with more than one phase) on the weekends I burned some gas.
Still, not gonna defend the german "Dienstwagenprivileg" for plug-ins, in way to many ways it just greenwashes those cars.
edit: current plug-ins have up to 100km range, mine only had around 45.
I loved my Chevy volt, it was a first Gen, 30 mile range on electric. But man we used the crap out of that thing. Could drive to work and sometimes all the way home, only really burned gas on the weekends or if we went out after work.
Would've been better if we had a level 2 charger at home, as it was we were stuck at like 1.3kw charging, so overnight for a full charge.
Had it for almost 3 years, bought it broken for cheap and fixed it. It was getting long in the tooth, battery showing its age (expensive replacement), AC starting to leak under the dash (expensive fix), and transmission starting to leak (never investigated, but presumably expensive fix).
Also needed a handful of other repairs that I was waiting for for weather before doing.
Wife hated it because it didn't do great in the winter, both traction and range. Plus the blind spots were big.
With all that... when I slid into a ditch last month, and the insurance totaled it.. I let them keep it.
Ended up with a gas guzzler again, but if I could get another good deal on a 2nd Gen, or if they ever come out with a 3rd Gen, I'd gladly drive one again.
They're perfect because you can be electric as much as you can be, but still have range and instant fill up at a gas station.
I love my a good PHEV.