EDIT clarifications:
- the article is from the European Commission. This thing comes from a serious study based on hard facts and data.
- Check this comment by @wooster@startrek.website, who reported the data.
- Note that plugin hybrids are still better than pure ice, but they were expected to be much better.
It’s not a typo: plug-in hybrids are used, in real word cases, with ICE much more than anticipated.
In the EU, fuel consumption monitoring devices are required on new cars. They studied over 10% of all cars sold in 2021 and turns out they use way more fuel, and generate way more CO2, than anybody thought.
The gap means that CO2 emissions reduction objectives from transport will be more difficult to reach.
Thruth is, we need less cars, not “better” cars.
Well… the hybrid car thing makes sense. How many places are built to have charging stations everywhere you’d park your hybrid car?
If you mange to afford buying/leasing/renting a hybrid car, that doesn’t mean you can afford to build out a charging station at your own home. Hell, you may not even be allowed to modify your existing property even if you could afford it.
So you wind up driving an electric car that is kept charged by a lawnmower engine burning gas instead of driving an electric car, charged from the power grid, with an emergency gas powered generator to increase your range or compensate for when the batteries’ capacity degrades.
You you suggesting its normal for people to not have outlets at their house but own electric cars? Haven’t outlets been standard for decades in homes?
How many feet of extension cord will a home owners association let be seen drug out on the front lawn?
What if there are no exterior outlets? You going to leave a window open with an extension cord fed through it? Maybe fine if you live somewhere without neighbors… probably a good way to get robbed otherwise.
What is the exterior outlets were shittily installed and are aren’t rated for whatever your particular flavor of electric vehicle you purchased?
Live in an apartment complex? Not on the ground floor? You gonna bust out somebody’s window to get to their outlet?
People put entire AC’s in their windows. There’s ways to ways to lock windows that are partially open 100% of the time.
If its just the outlets, fix it. A GCFI is like $20? So just replace them if they aren’t already GCFI. Bigger issue is amps in the circuit. Unless it happens to be on a 20amp+ circuit, there’s not really room for other things to run at the same time I think and it would probably be better off on its own. Also, if you have a lot of people there and have two vehicles you want to charge overnight, each would need its own circuit.
Of course situations vary. So, its not always practical or cheap. But you don’t need a fancy level 2 charging station to charge a plug-in hybrid.
I don’t think your assumption is right at all. Me, and I sure fucking hope 99% of other people who bought a PHEV, charge at home. Because if not, why the fuck did you massively overpay for a car when you could’ve gotten the ICE version?
My car is basically full electric for 99% of the time because 50 miles of electric range I get is plenty for daily driving in city traffic.
I just don’t want to waste money on full electric because somehow they are still treated and priced like luxury cars despite most of them being equivalent to cheap cars in build quality and materials.
I also want to avoid the hassle of spending too much time at charging stations during long trips because I have kids and just want to get places. And please don’t tell me there are a ton of charging stations without wait. I constantly see and hear from my friends who own electric cars how much of a pain it is especially during holidays. And I live in CA, easily one the states most prepared for electric cars.