PHEV technology could do a lot of good for the world while keeping the costs down for a while until battery prices come down more.
While the EV industry definitely isn’t shrinking, disinformation artists are jumping on the fact of slower than hoped for growth to make it sound that way. EVs are definitely still selling more than ever, but automakers wanted some breathing room when all of their overpriced EVs didn’t sell in 2023-4 like it was 2022. There are a variety of reasons for this, including inflation, interest rates, and political hostility towards EVs.
If everyone with a PHEV drove them like I drove the ones I’ve had good wheel-time with, they’d burn almost no gas. With the Volt, I ran the tank down to about empty on a road trip and then didn’t leave town for a few months. Because I charged it up to full in my little garage at night, took kids to school, and then charged it to full again before they got out of school, I went months without putting gas in the tank. I’d literally only fill the thing up for road trips.
But, the world isn’t always the neat rational place we’d like it to be. Some people will hate the idea of EVs so much that they’ll shit their pants to own the libs . Others will feel like it’s not convenient. Some people will see the power bill go up and stop plugging it in without doing the math and figuring out that the $20 increase in electricity is smaller than paying $100+ for gas.
Finally, there needs to be more carrots and sticks to encourage multi-family property owners, HOAs, and cities to make charging at night easier for more people. With a PHEV, expensive charging stations aren’t needed as much as just access to a 120v plug. This alone would solve a good bit of the problem with PHEV charging.
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