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Question of the Month: Will the next car you purchase be an EV or a Hybrid Electric Vehicle?

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e14 Question of the Month

Fast chargers and improvements in battery technology are alleviating some of the concerns that people have with EVs; however, hybrids and ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles can still be great cars.  Take the poll and let us know what kind of car you would buy, and please tell us why in the Comments section below! 

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  • 0 in reply to beacon_dave

    I agree, which is why is why I said that in the context of Hybrid vehicles.  If your hybrid can do 30miles on pure electric that would probably cover a majority of journeys for a lot of people; the ICE would cover those longer trips.

    My wife and I do mostly short journeys but we do longer ones on occasion.  Before buying an EV, we spent quite a long time looking at the longer journeys we did and how it might work.  It seemed eminently do-able but I can't say we're going to be 100% comfortable the first time we do them.  Not range anxiety, but charger anxiety!!

    My family is around 170 miles away but I'm lucky in that my father has a 7KW charger.  We're about to find out how it's going to go with a longer trip (200 miles or so) to North Yorkshire next month.  We also go to the Lake District a fair bit and they're a bit scarcer there.  We specifically avoided going to the coast in North Yorkshire because it seemed to be a bit of an EV charger desert.  It's certainly not perfect by any means.

  • 0 in reply to Andrew J

    The hybrid could have helped with the cross-over period but given that they are to be banned here in new vehicles shortly after the ICE then perhaps not much of an incentive for manufacturers to continue to produce them.

    Also you have the issue of the cost and additional weight for the dual drive trains plus the maintenance for something you aren't using most of the time.

    At least with the generator trailer concept you could unhitch and leave the heavy ICE in the garage most of the time as well as using it as a backup generator for the house.

    The Lake District is a tourist hotspot so easier to justify charging infrastructure in car parks. Other more remote places will be a nightmare to travel to.