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I 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 con
by AtlasBarfed 4y ago
I 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.