Plug-in hybrid cars are running out of road
of 9,000 vehicles from the International Council on Clean Transportation found that real-world fuel consumption from PHEVs was 2.5 to 5 times higher than what’s approximated under official laboratory testing procedures.
That gap between theory and practice is part of the reason national governments are cutting purchase subsidies for PHEVs faster than for fully electric models. The UK, for example, eliminated purchase subsidies for plug-in hybrids in 2018, while Germany announced just this week that PHEV subsidies will One critical distinction here is that the share of electric kilometers driven on a PHEV depends heavily on who owns it.
Upcoming policy changes could further erode the case for PHEVs. The European Commission is expected to introduce new “
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