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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
Probably the one type of PHEV that should survive is basically a BEV with builtin backup generator. One that's not necessarily powerful enough to drive you directly at full speed, but enough to basically eliminate range limitation of a (cheaper and smaller) battery by continuously charging it when needed. Maybe this 'backup generator' can even be made as a removable option.

I'm thinking of a semi-rural use case, when your typical daily trip is 20-50 km, but the charging infrastructure is poor and occasionally you do need to drive 200-300 km in winter.