If you want great mpg and no range anxiety, plug in hybrids is the way to go.
Very true. For a rural user that lives 6 or 7 miles out of town a plug in 40 mile range hybrid is the way. I have a 2012 Volt plug in. I average 30 to 40 miles a day and the ev portion is used for almost all my needs
When I do go over the gas sipper 35mpg ice picks up the slack. Not a lie. Since May when I got it I have logged just over 3000 miles with gas purchase of under 3 gallons and 120 volt plug in charging overnight of about 8 or 9 kWh at .13 per kWh cost. It works great for me.
Thank you!! It took 11 posts to get a winner!
This author did so little research that it didn’t know that you PLUG IN your Prius, or your Ford Esacape, or Chevy Volt ... all available as plug in hybrids.
We figured this out 8 years ago when we bought a 2015 Ford Fusion Energi. It’s lifetime MPG is 49.3 MPG and that includes a lot of long distance trips from GA to Texas that would have been so unpleasant in an all EV.
Nowadays my wife’s Energi only goes about 13 miles a day- to/fr work. All electric. If we take it to church or shopping, yeah we burn some gas.
But we get to go where we want to without issues.
REM: before I bought the car I asked about battery replacement costs, so we could figure that in to our planning. 132,000 miles later, the big EV battery is at about 45% of original charge, so we are considering replacing it for about $4000 turn key.
In my opinion Toyota has it right. And so do the other automakers who still offer plug in hybrids. It may shock (punny) a lot of the EV haters on FR to know you can get a plug-in hybrid F-150. It will likely replace the Fusion someday.
Yep, a good transition vehicle over the next 25 years as EV's continue to develop.