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23/12/2019 at 8:40pm
Location: East Midlands
Outfit: Outwell Hartford L
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Will you charge the car at home and if so, will you or your employer pay for the electricity?
The 40 mile range sounds good but in winter the car will tend to run on the petrol engine it you put any electrical load on such as windscreen demise, rear screen heater and heated front seats.
I speak from experience as I am on my third plug in hybrid.
First was a Mitsubishi Outlander phev.
Second was a Hyundai Ioniq phev.
Third is a Hyundai Ioniq phev premium se.
You may get somewhere near the advertised range in may to September but as soon as you switch on electrical loads such as heaters or air on, this takes miles range out of the car.
Plug in hybrids are intended for somebody who charges the car at home, drives up to 20 miles to work, charges the car at work etc.
I am a rep and can drive 400 miles per day, mainly on motorways, certainly not what plug in hybrids are intended for but the experts who govern us give company car drivers tax advantages for driving plug in hybrids so I will ply the game to my advantage. Getting back to the Hyundai Ioniq, the only plug in hybrids seem to be company cars, the non plug in hybrids are driven by private motorists, having spoken to a few, they said that the extra cost for the plug in hybrid version of the car and the reduced running costs for plugging in did not justify the higher purchase price of the plug in hybrid.
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