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It's also a practical difficulty. Small batteries in PHEV mean they charge slowly (makes public chargers less useful, EV road trips impossible). Their tiny EV
by pornel 4y ago
It's also a practical difficulty. Small batteries in PHEV mean they charge slowly (makes public chargers less useful, EV road trips impossible).
Their tiny EV range requires them to be charged daily, which makes at-home charging a necessity in practice. But having such a good access to charging is also a thing that makes BEVs convenient. From this perspective PHEV a poorly-performing BEV with a baggage that reduces its performance, range, and efficiency, and occasionally is a less-efficient ICE to potentially save 20 minutes of time after 2-3 hours of driving at highway speeds.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoI agree that PHEVs are fundamentally a flawed BEV. I was pretty strident in the belief, until someone pointed out that when you consider the scale of moving consumer transportation to batteries with current battery production scale (even with the scaling of battery production over the next five years) is SO BIG... The best use of available battery supply is to do PHEVs. For city traffic you get a huge gain in all-electric driving. But really, this would have required forethought about 10 years ago to push car makers to have the scaled production ready for hybrid drivetrains. They don't, and so what I think is that all-BEVs will transition in. What really sucks is that if we had hybrid drivetrains in mass production ten years ago in most consumer transport, then the used car market would now be full of them. As it stands, BEVs will come in the new cars, but dirty ICEs will stick around for a decade at least. It would have been so nice for that used car market to be PHEVs.