Thanks @kezo My intention with a PHEV would definitely be to keep it charged and probably run it on EV mode for all local journeys (if the battery lasts). I can’t get a cheap EV tariff as I don’t have a smart meter and don’t want one (I’m done with electrical work in this house 😂).
I average about 42mpg with the BMW and petrol at our village petrol station is £1.40 a litre so, if my maths are correct, it’s costing me 15p a mile to run. If I understand your post correctly, it sounds as though the Tucson PHEV will be cheaper to run, even allowing for the charging costs at normal rates? The 34mpg comment threw me a bit, as that sounds really poor. I appreciate that you live on a mountain but presumably the climb up is offset by the coast back down? 🤔😂
I hope that I’m going to like the Tucson. Much as I will miss my BMW, the new ones have gone backwards in a number of respects IMO. I’ve now had 4 different iX1s (one xLine 30e, one M-Sport 20e and two M-Sport 30e’s) and I’ve been glad to get back in my 2021 petrol X1 every time. The combination of an over complicated and non-user friendly iDrive system, coupled with the lack of a rotary controller, has ruined what was a class leading infotainment system. It’s no longer intuitive and is a faff to use when driving. I appreciate that the Tucson is touch screen only as well, and the voice control isn’t as good as BMWs, but from what I’ve seen of it so far, it seems to be more intuitive.
BTW, the bings and bongs issue that Hyundai love has crept into BMW as well. The current iX1 I’m driving keeps on binging to tell me I’m exceeding the speed limit. It’s worse than my wife 😂 And the remaining range is falling at about twice the actual number of miles that I’m driving. I appreciate that the two issues are possibly connected 🤔😂