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[Dormant] Electric Vehicles

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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you have a PHEV with a range of 40 miles on battery alone, you will hardly ever use the gas engine at all.

[–] Senshi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely true, but that still does not make phev the universal solution to climate friendly transportation :) .

It's more of an awkward stop gap measure. It's expensive and complex to make and maintain (!) and only really profitable for manufacturers due to subsidies as well.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

I'm just disagreeing with the "difficult to maintain because reasons" bit. You could easily go 300,000 miles on a PHEV with regular maintenance.