My partner has put over 800 miles on her new plug in hybrid, and she still has over half of the original tank of gas from the dealership.
PHEVs are seriously the best of both worlds if you're not ready to take the leap to a fully electric vehicle.
That being said, charging a PHEV or full EV at home is no joke. Even just the PHEV is tripling our total household electricity usage.
Being in freaking California means the cost savings is only maybe 20% vs gasoline, but the convenience factor of plugging in only taking 10 seconds when she gets home is a huge win compared to visiting gas stations.
@kwf do time of use electricity tariffs not exist over there? "Standard" rate in the UK is ~$0.35/kWh, but EV focused tariffs tend to be around $0.09/kWh for off-peak, energy-supplier scheduled charging, which works out as ~$0.02/mi at my average 3.7mi/kWh.
@m0vfc We have an EV TOU rate plan, which saves you a few cents per kWh... https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/residential-electric-rate-plan-pricing.pdf
@kwf Wowsers, that's still not cheap! I kind of assumed CA would be sitting on a massive midday generation surplus of solar, but evidently not! Hope it improves as more PV comes online!
@kwf (on the flip side, non-Tesla ultra-rapid public charging is more like $1/kWh, but amortized over the majority of journeys, the "effectively free" home charging dominates)