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Old 03-18-2021, 05:04 PM   #42 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jakobnev View Post
Which part of hybrid did you not understand? (read post #1 again!)

Let me try to construct an example that even you can understand: If petrol was $600/l and you drove 20 miles per day, would you not understand the value of halving your consumption? (no mater how hugging close the gas stations were to you!)
If petrol was $600/L, then it would be foolish to purchase a hybrid because you'd never put fuel in it. Better off spending that money on a pure EV.

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Unless you can't because you don't own the location where you park when the sun is out, or it's different locations every time.
Then a plug-in isn't the right vehicle for the use case, which would be a regular hybrid. Your hypothetical situation where petrol is $600/L is not reality. The thread title is "Is it time to re-visit solar hybrids?", which it isn't, because petrol is cheap and ubiquitous, and PV sucks and is expensive.
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