First Buyers Rejected EVs - Now PHEVs Suffer Same Fate!

🚗 Why are plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) facing the same rejection as early electric vehicles (EVs)? 🚗 In this video, we uncover the reasons behind the growing disinterest in PHEVs among consumers. From cost concerns and technological challenges to market perception and environmental debates, we explore why PHEVs might be following the same rocky path as their fully electric counterparts.
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🔍 The initial appeal of PHEVs and why it's fading
📉 Consumer concerns and market reactions
💡 Technological and environmental factors at play
🏁 Expert insights on the future of PHEVs
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[@typxxilps]

at the end it can work out very well, but only for certain people that are very aware of what they need and want but also what not. The usual profile must be daily commute within the range of battery propulsion or close at least mostly to gain the daily benefits from the electric drive train, while there should also be a regular second profile with longer or long distance rides maybe across a desert without fast chargers for example. Only then it will pay off and those owners are willing to pay additional costs for the 2nd drive train and the whole maintenance dilemma cause if you get one, you need a complete different repair shop if things go wrong. It is easy to maintain ice, a bit more complex with an EV and a mess with a hybrid unless you have specialised repair shop or a dealer big enough that he has a certified mechanic only for hybrids cause the biggest issue in a usual dealer is the ice car knowing his stuff, while the electrian is unaware of the secrets ice still has in a certain car. Hybrids are more complex, 2 drive trains have to interact. The most likely solution for that mess will be an approach we had seen before in the BMW i3 or i8 with range extender, a small 20 hps strong 2 cylinder power generator only running at a certain rpm in the highest efficiency that a kat and more will not be needed. 3300 rpm if it is on to charge the battery or and power the drive train. OBRIST , a supplier from austria, has shown such car based on a model 3 stripped, where the battery has been reduced to 15 kWh or so to get the space for a tank and save the budget for the generator. In this case the hybrid is not really a core hybrid with 2 power trains as before, only 1 electric drive train without the usual gearbox and transmission is there and can that be maintained easily while the ICE part can be mainained by any ice engine guy from a farm cause there is not much interaction, just a tiny control unit giving the command at a certain SOC to start the ice engine. Long description cause yon can find videos about the obrist here on youtube and its second evolution in the past 5 years. But that is only the intro cause VW will do a similiar approach for their new scout brand and its trucks based on Rivian ideas but then including a range extender which Rivian seems to not wanna implement which then offers both companies the opportunity to cooperate on different target groups. Hybrids are complicated and expensive to maintain, also to build, always with false customises cause when the buyers have gotten their car they will have to learn and to adopt the limits like very limited range and also depending on temperature with additional risks of battery failure cause those are suffering from the more intense usage. If you drive such full hybrid to work and charge their to go back you will charge the vehicle most likely 6 days a week 2 times and that would end in 280 days from monday to saturday or 560 charges and cycles. Those small batteries are struggling and quite expensive to replace - usually unless you know some experts like the evclinic in the EU who also do battery and onboard charger repairs. A new on for golf GTE hybrid costs as much as for the e GOLF which is 4000€ for a brand new one from VW or 800€ for the repair or 500€ for a used one. Therefore it looks great, might be great and fit perfectly, but when it will age you will need an easy system due to exploding maintenance costs and the risks. It looks great, it is great - but only in the range extender version compared with the Opel Ampera aka GMs Bolt. At the end they will not survive as pure hybrids, only as range extender cause sooner or later the production of ice engines will dry out and there will only be 1 or 2 diesel engines in whole europe left for special purposes like VANs and RV for longer distance for quite a while still to expensive and also for machines and so on or smaller busses based on vans. No one else in europe will build ICE engines anymore except those niche manufacturer with a production volume below 2000 or 10000 vehicles a year who do not have to meet the fleet emission standards like the ALPINA branded BMW, but they will most likely buy 10000 engines or so from BME to put them in stock to build new cars. You can not afford to build small amounts of engines cause each parts price explodes due to economy of scale effects which will lead to a general union of european car and van manufacturers building only 1 or 2 diesel engines cause the production volumes are too small. Imagine VW is no longer selling any car with a diesel, how many fewer 4 cylinder Diesel they will need ? 1,5 million lesse and only a demand for their Van production of 200.000 max, which means 1 / 7 th of the previous production volume. Price for such parts will explode due to economy of scale. A mold for a dashboard costs about 2 million euro. If you build 1,5 million for 8 years = 12 million in total then the mold alone will cost 16 cents per dashboard. But with only 200.000 or 1,6 million in total the cost for the mold would be 1,20€ or 8 times more. Imagine what a diesel engine would cost with so many parts needed including the clutch and transmission, the starter, exhaust and what not.

[@redsalamander3007]

They are all wonderful when new but will cost more in the long run due to complexity of troubleshooting and repair.

[@vtv8man]

What? They have less moving parts and are easier to repair.

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In other words, a Prius

[@Skyhawk1480]

Downvoted not because of content, but because of title "First Buyers Rejected EVs...".