Isn’t it interesting how many of us went down the PHEV route and haven’t been impressed?
Not really.
It just shows who couldn’t be bothered to read into it, which is on them. And somewhat proven here as well, with people not even knowing how much of the total propulsion is provided by the electric motor.
You really can’t complain or “not be impressed” with the power of the electric motor when you didn’t know how much power it has in the first place – before you order the car, preferably.
PHEVs have an admittedly narrower use case than other cars, that said..
The fact that people are insistent that something is bad, rather than accepting that their expectations are simply unrealistic or stupid is beyond funny nowadays. In this thread alone you have people complaining that the car in its most economical setting “doesn’t make 300bhp”, didn’t know how much power it has in the first place, are “bothered” by plugging the car in (a process that literally takes less than 15 seconds) etc.
It’s the same kind of people who buy a 330d, drive it 2 miles up town and back and wonder why they’re only averaging 17mpg, and the heater doesn’t work. Yeah, if you don’t use the car as intended, then who’d have thought, it’s not going to work out great. We didn’t get a diesel because it’d be moronic to do so in our use case – i cannot fathom why this is such a foreign concept to the vast majority of people here. Neither can i fathom how someone with our requirements looks at a diesel and goes “yeah, lets get this, makes sense”.
No, PHEVs aren’t bad. You bought the wrong car, because you didn’t “do your research” before/think it through.
PHEVs very much work for many people, over a total of 34 months of “ownership” we drove the GTE 16k miles, with a fuel bill (total) of around £870 – and that’s exclusively “Momentum” (and EV tariff).
This is the same nonsense as people who can’t charge at home, were warned that EVs aren’t economical to run on public chargers, bought them anyway and then complain about how expensive an EV is to run.
Own your mistakes. Things like this sentence:
I realise that the stated bhp is a bit of a joke as you only get it when you floor it with a charged battery and the engine kicks in
.. yeah? What else would you suggest? State the petrol only bhp? State the electric only bhp? What’s the alternative? You can’t give people like you the actual precise numbers either because then two days later you come back to the dealership complaining that on the dyno, the car made a noticeably smaller number than motor+engine numbers should add up to – naturally, considering they peak their power at different ranges on the revband – so the actual numbers are completely meaningless, what matters is the combined horsepower – and that’s the number you get quoted.
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.