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Hybrids, particularly plug in hybrids really seem like the most pragmatic option in the United States at least until the charging infrastructure and fast chargi
by _mlbt 2y ago
Hybrids, particularly plug in hybrids really seem like the most pragmatic option in the United States at least until the charging infrastructure and fast charging speeds improve.
- thebruce87m 2y agoI’m not so sure I’m on-board with the plug in hybrid approach. I know you said pragmatic, which it is, but I think we should just “rip off the bandage” and suffer some pain to go full EV. Some reasons: 1. A small battery in a plug-in hybrid will be cycled more. An NMC battery in an EV that gets 250 miles will last 1000+ cycles - that’s 250,000 miles. Drop that to 30 miles and you’re only at 30k miles. People have already been convinced that EV batteries will “need replaced” but even if you explain the cycling to them they will still be stuck in that mindset and that will be reinforced when they need to replace their plug-in battery. The naysayers about battery replacement use to quote 3 years, then 5 and now 10. Maybe in 10 years they will be saying 20 but it will take a while to dispel the myth. Maybe LFP or sodium with higher cycles will help the plug-in battery cycling right enough. 2. I’m willing to bet that a significant proportion of people will not charge their plug in hybrid and will just be polluting more by lugging around a battery they don’t use. 3. If you have a battery and a ICE you have more points of failure. One of the benefits of EVs is the “just add washer fluid” aspect.