I’d like to see an increase in the availability of PHEV’s but I doubt it. I’m still awaiting a build date for an e-C4 but if a better (affordable) choice of PHEV became available then I might be tempted to cancel and change tack.
I was seriously thinking of getting a PHEV next time, but am not so sure now. With the sky high AP’s for PHEV’s and rocketing electricity prices, I’m not sure that they would be as viable financially now. If the equivalent standard petrol model is way cheaper AP wise, has far less weight to lug around and doesn’t ever require plugging in, it might be a far more attractive option for us. I had considered that many of our short journeys could have been done in electric mode, but in that mode your 250 bhp PHEV is actually a very heavy 80 bhp car. Better to go full EV if that’s the aim.
We have a Kona electric and can charge at cheap evening rates and the AP was really competitive. Looking at PHEV prices, personally I would not bother, especially as free chargers will start to disappear quickly. I charge at 7.5p, but over the weekend at a service station it was 75p! That’s the equivalent of £1.30 a litre of petrol.
Then there’s the outlandish mpg manufacturers quote for PHEV, especially if like me regulary do 350 mile journeys. If your pottering around town or going to the supermarket and you can do so in EV mode you might see those figures, but, you may as well jump straight to EV if thats all your using it for providing you can have an home charger fitted.