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Originally Posted by WestCoastEcho
Again, how much driving are you doing to max out the potential of a PHEV?
Using the Prius Prime, it has a battery-only range of 40km. Even if you maxed out the battery-only range to drive to work and back, charge at both ends, and drive 365 days a year, to even get 200,000km, you would have to own the car for almost 7 years to effectively amortize the extra cost of the Prius Prime compared to a regular Prius.
But that's a pretty extreme case for someone driving long distances to work and back; using Stats Can's numbers on the median commute distance for Metro Vancouver, the average commute distance for someone that works in Vancouver and commutes in from Abbotsford is 30km each way. To even hope of achieving 200,000km if you drive every day would be closer to 10 years.
Also, car maintenance is dictated by either distance driven, or time, whatever comes first (see your car's manual on that). Never how much actual wear and tear the engine experiences.
In a perfect world, that may make sense, but in the real world where money counts, a family is not going to pay more for a zero emissions vehicle when they can get a similar vehicle for less. |
Stop cherry-picking (misdirecting) facts about hybrids and electric vehicles. If anyone reads the past several pages of your responses all at once, it is blatantly obvious you are just spinning in circles. Someone debunks one thing you say, then you cherry-pick (misdirect) to another fallacy, once that's debunked you go on to another.
I'll let Engineering Explained give a straightforward explanation, he provides all citations and links to confirm facts, no subversion needed.
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References:
MIT Emissions Study -
https://bit.ly/2zeYfqd
Cradle To Grave Emissions Estimates -
https://bit.ly/2rEhB4D
Vehicle Production Emission Estimates (Low) -
https://bit.ly/2yGoEh8
Vehicle Production Emission Estimates -
https://bit.ly/2yoX6hC
Vehicle Production Emission Estimates (High) -
https://bit.ly/2dhB1Tu
EV Battery Production Emissions -
https://bit.ly/2yCMwSY
End Of Life Emissions -
https://bit.ly/2ETHh77
Annual Vehicle Use Emissions -
https://bit.ly/2Sxo65K
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