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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
European automakers were heading hot and heavy down the PHEV path until the regulations changed to include real world emissions testing as well as monitoring of fuel consumption and electric usage, especially with company owned vehicles (a very large percentage of vehicles in Germany and other key markets). What they found is that since companies often covered the cost of fuel, company car drivers could give a schnitt about plugging in to maximize electricity usage over gas or diesel. Also, in Europe in particular, they don’t worry so much about regulating fuel economy. High prices do that quite effectively. They are focused on emissions. PHEVs that don’t run much on electric generate more emissions than EVs, HEVs, and ICEs. With the EU commitment to the Paris Accord, automakers are embracing the move to zero emissions. PHEVs are not zero emissions.
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That does reinforced the point that people can't be arsed to plug in a car. To me, that further demonstrates the (perhaps conceived) inconvenience of BEV. There are probably some applications where BEV isn't practical.
Fuel cost is running cost for a company, so I would think they would like to minimize that cost if at all possible. Maybe EV just takes too long to charge up for some type of work. Now you can work around it with enough BEV, but that requires some extra work in coordination and initial cost of purchasing BEV.
And it's weird to think that PHEV that isn't plugged in can generate more emissions than ICE vehicles. Maybe more than HEV if we account for the extra batteries and weight, but an ICE vehicle is a bit hard to believe. Are we comparing the same class of vehicles? I don't mean to sound sarcastic but I would like to see a source on that.
And nothing is zero emissions. BEV and FCEV have zero
local emissions. They may emit less but they don't run on magical unicorn farts. The engineer inside of me hate that term. It's five letters, not that much more work to type.