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Old 11-08-2021, 12:36 PM   #784
Hack&Lube
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Originally Posted by indes View Post
Another thing to look for when looking at PHEVs is that some of them use the ICE for heat. My Santa Fe uses the engine for heating and AC, while also charging the battery. The Prime RAV4 can run in all electric and heat/cool.
My condo doesn't have any charging but my work does so the Phev makes sense there, but I can't make sense of the added mechanical complexity and points of failure and added weight of having electric and internal combustion together in the same vehicle.

The latest Tesla's have a heat pump for heating, hopefully some of the models in the spring will have that in availability.
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