It just fully depends on the driver. A PHEV which the driver does not recharge is just a heavier HEV.
But if you have less than 70km to drive every day and have a home charger, there’s barely ever any reason to use gas.
The issue is that many PHEV owners only get one because it allows them to get around regulations for driving in city centers, so they just use the cars as gasoline powered cars.
Plug-in hybrids are ideal. They get the cleanliness and efficiency of regen breaking, the efficiency of an electric motor, with the much smaller footprint of a battery 15% the weight of an ev battery. They effectively suppress range anxiety while still heavily incentivizing electricity use instead of gasoline. And when they do run on gasoline in exceptional circumstances, they are running more efficiently than conventional gas cars.
Eurotunnel was not state owned. Yes it can technically go bankrupt, but it won’t.
Well Eurostar is a state owned company. It can’t go bankrupt. But if it starts losing a lot of money, it can be scaled down.
Well it’s both. Which tells you something about the French. Organized and intolerant to this kind of shit.
Yeah but there’s no more “get out of the rer at the wrong stop and you’re fucked” at least !
They unified the ticket system last year, you can go anywhere with one ticket now.
Then they will unironically call it the freedom OS
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We said stone age.
Well yes it’s ridiculous we have (in EU) a mandatory warranty of only 2 years on anything electronic.
Phones should be 5 years. Appliances should be 10 and cars 15 or 200k kilometers. How have we normalized the fact that it’s okay for a car to break down after two years and the manufacturer is not on the hook ?
They’ll make iPhones in India. Which is actually what they are doing right now. Or in Vietnam. Or Ethiopia. You can’t tariff everyone 140% if you want your economy to work.
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.