Reply To: PHEV running cost

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Oscarmax
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    Hi Oscarmax, thanks for posting – This is interesting for us as we have just picked up our our first PHEV (Peugeot 308SW). Our intention was to do most of our weekly driving fully electric and just pop into hybrid mode for longer journies. The stated 100% electric range is “up to 37 miles”. Well, with the AC set to 19 C with an external temp of 17 C (so not doing much…), pootling in London traffic (so very little accelleration, never over half way up the ‘Eco’ range on the dial) we’re getting about 15-17 miles out of a full battery. On public chargers it’s costing £6-£7 to fully charge and at home, using a 3-pin plug ‘granny charger’, it’s costing £3-£4 to fully charge. We don’t have a wall box, or an EV/overnight tarrif, just OVO’s standard rate. It’s a 12.4 kWh battery and it takes 3.5 hours to fully charge on a public charger and about 5.5 hours at home. We were quite surprised at how poor the 100% electric range was, but it should be just enough for our needs. It has made us even more anxious about in the future going fully electric though…

    37 miles with a 12.4 kWh only 8.68kWh is usable 30% used to protect the battery, our previous Outlander PHEV with a 13.8kWh battery would achieve 28/30 miles depended on condition is the cooler weather this could drop to 22/24 miles, in the cold weather with the heating on 17/18 miles, in severe weather 14/15 miles. Like your Peugeot the Outlander was fitted with a ceramic heater, both are energy vampires, with aircon and heating on, with your 12.4 battery and the time you are spending in London traffic 15/17 miles is realistic.

     

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