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> Even plug in hybrids spend most of their lives burning gas. They don't. PHEV's spend 50%-80% of their time on electric only, if you use them properly. (Just
by maxsilver 2y ago
> Even plug in hybrids spend most of their lives burning gas.
They don't. PHEV's spend 50%-80% of their time on electric only, if you use them properly. (Just plug them in once each evening).
> The Solterra (snip) is a very mediocre EV, far behind its competition in efficiency and charging.
The Solterra is roughly competitive with a Tesla Model 3 (Standard Range) or a Chevy Bolt. Which is fine, they're all reasonable EVs, but I'd still call all of these "first generation consumer EVs".
We're at the "everyone has a BlackBerry, the iPhone hasn't been released yet" stage of automotive EVs, in my humble opinion.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago> They don't. PHEV's spend 50%-80% of their time on electric only, if you use them properly. If. And since that "if" is false, then the "they don't" is also false. https://electrek.co/2024/03/25/yet-another-study-shows-plug-in-hybrids-arent-as-clean-as-we-thought/ https://electrek.co/2024/03/25/yet-another-study-shows-plug-...
- greenthrow 2y agoPeople don't use Plugin Hybrids that way, though. Studies have shown people don't plug them in. Which is exactly what you should expect because someone buys a hybrid because they want to continue driving an ICE car.