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Originally Posted by indes
Just to chime in with some more relevant driving for you guys who are looking at PHEVs.
I drove from Sherwood Park to South Edmonton common to do some shopping last week (33km - 25 min drive) and ended up averaging 4.8L/100km.
I thought it was pretty good, had the climate control at 20.5 and the car switched from EV to HEV (engine running) throughout the whole trip to keep the temp up inside as it was around -20 outside.
This will be pretty close to my daily commute when I get back to work and I'm happy with those numbers for the temperature outside. I am able to turn off the heat if I want and run EV only but for obvious reasons I don't haha.
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Weird how these PHEV's do not have some sort of heater specially designed to run on fuel. Much like a semi has those little units they can turn on when they want to keep their sleeper warm but engine off. Running an entire engine just to provide heat seems a bit excessive to me. The only way I would ever consider a PHEV is if I could get a decent range 50Km in electric only mode but that is all for not if I need a gas engine to run just to heat the the cabin half the year.