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Originally Posted by Slava
I have a plug-in hybrid and it's just so awesome. I get around 60-65km on the battery and for me that is enough for almost every day. Of course you have the gas engine for anything over that, so you eliminate the range anxiety. I think I probably use less than half of the amount of gas as I was with a regular ICE vehicle. I can't recommend this enough.
I can't speak to the savings and efficiency of a regular hybrid, but I think it would be decent. I know that driving in hybrid mode for me is better than the pure ICE because you get some benefit of the EV engine, but I couldn't really quantify that for you.
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Bolded part is exactly the part the intrigues me. Our use would be very similar. Overwhelming majority of the time, our driving would be in that rage.
So plug-in hybrid....I assume that means there are versions you can plug in to your home to charge the battery and other versions where plug-in is not available and the charging of the battery is done solely by the engine?
What's power/acceleration like? Is the engine able to deliver decent power when battery not available?
What's the capacity of your fuel tank?