PHEV ain’t really the answer, So the decision is really Ice or BEV. Longer trips ain’t such the issue they used to be. If you adapt. Yes the odds are on those 500 mile journeys you’ll need to charge even if you have the biggest range on the scheme. It will take probably 30 to 45 mins and often make 2 stops as it can be better than one.
Yes it’s different to filling up an ICE.
The night/day (depending on your EV tariff) before you do your longer journey you charge up to 100%. The skoda Enyaq for example has an 82kwh battery but only 77kwh is useable.
So in theory at 6.7p per kwh on eon next drive it will cost around £5.60 to charge with losses.
In winter at -10 doing 70mph you can get 205 mi, in summer at 23 degrees you’ll get 265 mi from 100% according to evdatabase.org/uk. If you do 65mph you’ll get more range..
So then you use super rapid chargers 150kw and above to utilise the 135 kW DC max speed of the Enyaq.
Also as as your doing a few trips a month. A Telsa or Ionity subscriptions, would certainly work for you and reduce the charging costs over using many other CPO. But that also means you need to stop maybe before you need to as there might be no Tesla or Ionity site later enroute and then stop on the way back to put in only enough to get you home. Plus that they actually where you are going.
I often don’t charge at my destination, I stop before and charge to 80% or at least enough to get me back to the Telsa site again on the way back home.
My car the Volvo ex30 even tell me how much I’ll arrive with at each stop on the built in google maps. It certainly helps cure range anxiety and personally the longest I’ve stopped at any one timer so far is 20 mins.
I always put in enough to get me home with 10% and each time I have arrived with 10%
Then it depend on your other driving the rest of the month based on winter combined you’d get 240 miles worst case those are real world figures not wltp and it will cost £5.60. So for most people those low cost subsidise the bigger costs of longer journeys. Only you can work that all out. For me it’s crazy how much a bev is saving me over ice. Charging at home is so cheap and for me it’s no big deal. I quite like the fact I need to stop to charge and give myself a nice rest on those longer trips. Before in an ice I wouldn’t and it’s kind of refreshing. Something I thought I wouldn’t say.
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