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Originally Posted by genxer

Is the 80% of commuters driving less than 40 miles a day still accurate?
Auto reporting sites rarely makes the distinction of different plug in styles.
-PHEV should fulfill a buyer cost benefit.
-A small tank or engine in a BT1 EREV would be a like malaise-era choice. It's power should be made to be sustained over a large tank.
-High battery range regulation stacks the deck against plug-ins. The engine is an asset that should see use.

Sorry genxer, I missed this a couple months ago. At this point, data I’m seeing is saying it’s closer to 90%. Not sure how much impact work from home may have on this. I would expect those with longer commutes are more likely to work from home, even if it means changing jobs to do so.

As for buyer cost benefit of PHEV vs EV, for most people there is still probably better cost benefit with an EV over a PHEV. Even though fueling costs would be significantly reduced, there is still some impact of gasoline purchase vs electricity cost. But the big driver would be the other add-on maintenance costs that carry over from ICE into PHEV. Oil changes, exhaust system maintenance, brake system maintenance. I linked a video to another thread where a woman who 5 years ago decided to buy a Model 3 for $41k over a 2-yr old 3-Series at $37k did a walk through of here total cost of ownership compared to what it would have likely looked like if she had chosen the 3-Series. A PHEV would likely have slotted somewhere in between.

EREV for trucks and utilities that are actually used for towing and hauling make sense and would probably have a better cost position than a pure BEV for those uses. Sorta like doing a lot of towing with a gas V8 2500 series truck will likely have a higher total cost of ownership than diesel 2500 series truck, even though the cost per gallon of fuel is significantly higher for diesel. The diesel is just better equipped to do the job. Same thing for EREV vs EV when it comes to heavy duty vehicles.