Thread: Hybrid vs petrol - surprising outcome

Wifey was at a girls do this past summer (Gin night or some such). Girls got to talking cars (Wifey has owned her SWB Safari for 20 years). One lass was waxing eloquent about her 9 month old PHEV, and how good it was for saving the planet bla bla bla. Wifey asked her how much it cost to charge up: "No, you just drive it and the motor charges the battery for free"....."Er, you do know that the P in PHEV stands for plug in don't you?". Big long pregnant pause.....she had owned a brand new car for 9 months and had no idea how it actually worked. So much for the salesman. Or it might just have been her. Who knows.

But the amassed data on these last few pages really puts the place of an EV or PHEV in perspective: live close enough to town to use as a shopping cart, OK. Intend to do longer distances in it, not so much.