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What? That doesn’t sound right. I would have to think the majority of people plug them in. That is the whole point of paying more for a plug-in.
by francisofascii 4y ago
What? That doesn’t sound right. I would have to think the majority of people plug them in. That is the whole point of paying more for a plug-in.
- jacquesm 4y agoIn plenty of countries those plug-in hybrids were sold with lots of up front subsidies and reduced running costs due to lower taxation for the first five years.
- sbradford26 4y agoI believe this stems from a paper that came out about how some large percentage of PHEVs never plugged in. The large caveat was that a large amount of that data was from company vehicles for employees. Which those employees have very little incentive to actually plug in since typically the company pays for fuel costs.
- exhilaration 4y agoThere was a bunch of reporting on this study like this: https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/phev-owners-not-plugging-in https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/phev-owners-not... Here's the actual study (PDF): https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/real-world-phev-us-dec22.pdf https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/real-world-ph... We may have talked about it on HN.