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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
The comment was a hybrid is the best of both worlds. It's just not really.
A mild hybrid has better fuel efficiency than pure ICE, sure. It has zero of the benefits of electric (instant torque, cheap fuel costs, way cheaper maintenance). You can't claim a mild hybrid is the best of both worlds when it's in only one world.
A plug-in hybrid seems like the best of both worlds because you get a battery powered vehicle but none of the range anxiety. That's why my wife wanted a plug-in hybrid. It's served us well and I like it well enough, but it's not the best of both worlds if you look deeper. First, we had to pay for two drivetrains. The gas engine we have is mediocre and the electric motor is even lower. We do have less maintenance with the gas engine because we rarely use it, but it still needs regular oil changes, etc. We only burn any gas on trips out of town, but moving to Salmon Arm means more trips out of town so we're using some fuel now.
There's still no electric minivan so I didn't suppose I'll be going pure electric soon, but when I can I will for sure
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In a perfect world every person who needs a truck has 80k (US) for a Rivian and the garage & the 10k extra for charging station to power it.
Regarding PHEV's, a new study suggests real world usage emitions are 5-7x higher CO2 than rated by EPA or whomever, giving car makers a huge benefit for producing low emission cars when they, in reality, aren't.
https://electrek.co/2023/02/08/anoth...an-we-thought/
There isn't any best answer available, unless you are wealthy. Which is like almost everything else I suppose, but this even more than most. And infrastructure (at least here) is so far behind now - and if Trump is elected I expect I'll get a free truckload of coal per month as energy incentive (instead of just seeing new gas stations being built on every other corner like we see now).
In the mean time, I'm confused where a choice to swap vehicle and cut personal CO2 emissions (from driving) by 3x is considered worst of both worlds.