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>>mikela+(OP)
This is exactly why I’m so uninterested in driving en EV. I usually word it as “I don’t want to drive a computer”, but the reality is that I don’t want to be on the wrong end of the power imbalance that comes from this amount of complexity.

>>JSR_FD+07
PHEV in the title is plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Different from a pure EV.

>>jkterh+S8
This is true. EVs are much simpler than ICE, and PHEV basically have all the complexity of EV+ICE.

>>GMorom+M9
PHEVs mean that half the time your using your battery to drag around an ICE, the other half the ICE is dragging around a battery.

A very temporary phenomenon in the evolution from ICE to EV.

>>rswail+zU
Your phrasing implies this causes extra weight gain - just to illustrate, the new Prius is about 1.4t (while having decent PHEV range), while the ID4 (a similar sized EV) is 2t.