Think our next car will be a plug in hybrid. On the EV charging options section on Motability website, it only mentions full EV vehicles being able to benefit from the subscription to the bp pulse network and the Motability Go Charge card Is this available for plug in hybrids at all?
Sadly not, no. Free charger, or the MB Go Charge card (which btw isn’t particularly great in the first place, once you read a bit into it – Electroverse makes much more sense) are reserved for full EVs.
As Glos pointed out correctly, you don’t really charge your PHEV on journeys, the intent is to either drive it within the electric range and charge at home, or use the petrol engine. Now of course Glos didn’t mention that it’s HIS PHEV in particular that is awful on petrol: ours does 55mpg on petrol alone despite the added weight, we have an EV tariff and a home charger, and can do a lot of our journeys in electric mode only – we only refuel once every 2-3 months, for around £50 (Momentum). The average recharge costs us a whopping 63p for roughly 32 miles of range average.
PHEVs have a pretty narrow use case – if you can utilise it properly, it’s cheap and convenient. If you get one with an engine notorious to be thirsty (Glos Guy forgot to mention that the non-plug in variants of his car are incredibly thirsty, too) and then drive it 100s of miles per day, much less so.
You can save a lot of money (we certainly do), if you get the correct car for the correct situation – but don’t even bother if you can’t charge at home. We’re towards the end of the lease now (6 months left) and haven’t plugged it in anywhere else but home, not once.
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.