It’s not that simple. We did an almost 100 mile test drive in the GTE, and managed to return around 130ish mpg. With some fooling around (test drive after all).
Electric range is one thing, but that’s not the actual range of the car. People who buy PHEVs often have range anxiety, hence going for a PHEV instead of an EV in the first place. Those people will go further with a PHEV than with an EV.
If we want to go on a daily drive (we live less than a mile from the beach, so our journeys aren’t that far anyway lol), we go on a daily drive. How a PHEV would limit someone who’s used to do long drives with pure combustion cars isn’t quite to my understanding. Especially considering that you save so much over a month or two, that you could drive a pure petrol car for a few hundred miles and still come out on top.
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.