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To: Tell It Right
The gas savings and oil change savings of an EV are real

I don't own one, but it seems Toyota's strategy of plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles, that use electric for short-trips and gas-hybrid for longer journeys, seems to make the most sense if one expects high gas prices.

15 posted on 06/12/2024 3:35:14 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88
I don't own one, but it seems Toyota's strategy of plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles, that use electric for short-trips and gas-hybrid for longer journeys, seems to make the most sense if one expects high gas prices.

Perhaps for a single person (one vehicle). But for married couples with two vehicles, it may be better to have one gas vehicle and one fully electric vehicle. Why? A hybrid electric gets only about 50 miles without gas (I'm talking about the newer plug-in hybrids). So if there's a yuge gas shortage/price hike, you'd still be too dependent on gas for my tastes. I don't like having too many of my transportation eggs in one energy basket while the Dims are making it clear that they're using their warmageddon cult energy policies to control us a little more, than a little more, etc.

If the Dims make gas unavailable (or way more expensive than it is now), we'll take the EV on trips. If the Dims make power hard to come by or way too expensive, we'll take the gas pickup on trips. If the Dims make both power and gasoline hard to come by, we won't be able to take long trips but we'd at least do most of our local driving without hesitation in our EV because over 80% of the power we consume at home comes from homemade power with solar (including charging the EV for our local driving).

19 posted on 06/12/2024 3:54:28 PM PDT by Tell It Right (Galatians 6:14 -- May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ...)
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