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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
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?
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Yeah the plug-in works with a normal electric socket and you could use faster chargers also. You can intall a 220v socket in your garage also and it charges the battery faster. I just drive with pure electric all the time, and the acceleration is fine. You can switch to gas, and you can use the combined if you really want to mess around. The combined EV and ICE is pretty fun, but also unneeded. And if you run the battery to zero, it's just a hybrid and drives the same as any other ICE I'd say. And if you run to zero charge, it just switches to hybrid automatically; you don't even notice and you don't have to do anything.
I don't really know the fuel capacity. I feel like it might be a 70L tank. Basically though, if you drive on pure electric all the time, and rarely use the gas I feel like I want to switch it to hybrid and burn through the tank every few weeks just to make sure that the gas isn't just sitting there going bad. You can rather easily just run full electric for if you drive less than 50-60kms a day, obviously depending on how often you drive and those habits.