PHEVs still have the hot scorching exhaust of the combustion engine. More so out in the bunnies, after the all-electric juice ran out after 25 miles.
Technically about 2.5 miles of off-road use.
I'd love to see how range figures diminish based on using a high powered sound system. I know that a Tesla's range can be cut in half by using the heater on a cold day.
The only manual hybrid ever introduced, to my knowledge, was the first generation Honda Insight. It is simply really difficult to account for the driver's throttle and shifting inputs compared to doing so in a drive-by-wire automatic.
It's like anything new. Most people don't like change. A certain subset of people are good at keeping open minds, but by and large people like to find things wrong with new things, and that makes them feel better and safer with the status quo. I used to be really crabby about electric vehicles, too, but for whatever reason I've come around to the inevitability of it over the last year or so.
Is that because you spend most of your time idling and moving really slow? If you have the AC and heat off, an idling electric car doesn't really use any electricity.
An open mind here is code for an open pocketbook, cheap money, easy credit. To Hell with thrift, common sense, hard work and good value. Gonna be interesting when full employment returns at <80% of what it was before Covid and government excuse unemployment checks dry up. Are the 80% going to feel generous toward that 20% of newly structured unemployed? Today's Covid economy already shows 50% underemployment is sustainable with rioting, law enforcement and cleanup sopping up the surplus workforce. $80,000 Jeeps in a $15 an hour economy; someone's smoking a lot of pot.
5. buy a Bronco
Tesla owner here. To say cut in half is pretty dramatic. We're talking severe arctic cold to have that sort of impact. In New England winters it's about 20% of range reduction running heat on a cold battery. I'm assuming FCA is giving itself a buffer here, meaning the true range of that battery is probably more like 35-40 miles, but they will limit the upper and lower capacity because batteries are happiest (and last longest) when kept out of the top/bottom 10% of capacity. That means 20% is something like 7 miles, which they could conceivably hide in that buffer.
