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> (including plug-in hybrids and fully electric models) This includes plugin hybrids, so it's not that 10% of cars sold in Europe are BEV's. Majority of those
by sharpneli 5y ago
> (including plug-in hybrids and fully electric models)
This includes plugin hybrids, so it's not that 10% of cars sold in Europe are BEV's. Majority of those are actually plugin hybrids.
And this already gives us like 90% of the environmental benefits. Sure BEV is more environementally friendly. But with PHEV's we can get more total amount of electrical kilometers driven on the road. And one only needs to be able to charge at home, no need to care about charging infrastructure yet. But when it improves one can use it just fine.
Basically you drive your daily commute with electricity, but when you go to summer cabin then you can use gasoline as usual.
This is an example of Finland, registrations for last month (march 2021):
6197 pure gasoline cars (includes non chargeable hybrids)
2121 Plugin-hybrids (gasoline)
1139 diesel
789 BEV
78 Plugin-hybrids (diesel)
At this rate it won't take many years anymore until pretty much all the new cars sold here will be chargeable, even if some of em still have ICEs inside them too.
I'm just about to change my winter heating socket into a charging outlet, and move into plugin hybrid. It just makes so much sense here. Because due to high gas taxes when driving with electricity it costs around 20-30% of what it costs to drive with gasoline. So it's simply a no brainer in economical sense.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoYes, all the while battery supplies are constrained spreading what available capacity we have over plugins makes a lot of sense.