Here in Germany you get a used PHEV (2 years old) with unused and wrapped charging cable. They were never charged and never drove electric. Why? Because our politicians thought exactly like you that PHEVs are awesome, so they allowed financial benefits for them. They are not awesome. You have two power trains, are carrying an unused gasoline engine when driving electric and an unused battery pack when driving with gasoline. You do need oil changes (which you don’t need with BEVs) and other parts of the engine need replacement. And to top it off, PHEVs are mostly huge cars. In my opinion, PHEVs combine the worst parts of both technologies.
Yes you can have large PHEVs, but the trend for bigger stupider cars is independent of power source. You can get a PHEV Renault Clio and it’s 20% lighter than the smaller electric Renault 5. And uses 80% less precious minerals because you have a smaller battery.
The gas engine needs maintenance of course, but you do use it much less than the electric motor, requiring much less maintenance than a normal car.
The fact that people buy PHEVs for the tax incentives and use them as gas vehicles is stupid and annoying, but that’s not a fault in the technology itself.
Here in Germany you get a used PHEV (2 years old) with unused and wrapped charging cable. They were never charged and never drove electric. Why? Because our politicians thought exactly like you that PHEVs are awesome, so they allowed financial benefits for them. They are not awesome. You have two power trains, are carrying an unused gasoline engine when driving electric and an unused battery pack when driving with gasoline. You do need oil changes (which you don’t need with BEVs) and other parts of the engine need replacement. And to top it off, PHEVs are mostly huge cars. In my opinion, PHEVs combine the worst parts of both technologies.
A lot of these arguments are not logical.
Yes you can have large PHEVs, but the trend for bigger stupider cars is independent of power source. You can get a PHEV Renault Clio and it’s 20% lighter than the smaller electric Renault 5. And uses 80% less precious minerals because you have a smaller battery.
The gas engine needs maintenance of course, but you do use it much less than the electric motor, requiring much less maintenance than a normal car.
The fact that people buy PHEVs for the tax incentives and use them as gas vehicles is stupid and annoying, but that’s not a fault in the technology itself.