- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- automotive@discuss.tchncs.de
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It looks like the economy is still ticking along, if people are still taking out new cars.
Apart from all the obvious talk, I also wanna congratulate Jaguar on their genius marketing and distribution strategy and it’s impacts again lmao
What exactly is the difference between a PHEV and a HEV?
You can charge the plugin hybrid and do your daily drive (~50km) on just electricity. Hybrid cars are just a way to save some fuel with regenerative braking and charging on a downhill.
PHEV is great if you have a monthly/weekly trips that are longer than 100km where you use petrol or if you want the option to drive 500km road trip without an hour long charging break. This is very good for people that have a charger at work but live in an apartment that they can’t charge the car.
HEV is going to be cheaper than the PHEV since you have a lot smaller battery and electric power system. The electric system is only there to take a load off the ICE engine and can potentially make it last longer by not having it run at a lower intensity.
As soon as you can charge the car at home EV is the best, people should take a break from driving every 2-3 hours anyway for safety on road trips. Downside is that you need a charging station to drive of course. EVs can potentially be the cheapest of the bunch since you only need one system to propel the car forward and battery prices are falling.
I think that PHEV can be charged from the grid, and HEV are basically just more fuel efficient petrol cars.
My HEV has an electric mode where it can basically go into silent running
Who the fuck is still buying Teslas?!
Apparently 48% less people compared to 2024. Which kinda nice, but still too high.
I know, baby steps! Definitely better than nothing
0.6% of the market, so 1 in 165 cars or so. Still way too many, for sure.
That’s really interesting - there is a lot of talk in Germany currently about the crisis in the car industry. And if you take a look, the big german manufacturers like VW, BMW and Mercedes are selling more cars than last year with a bigger market share.
They lost the chinese market to cheaper EVs. It was one of their biggest markets and also the US tarrifs.
Aaaand they also love to complain… always…
The German car industry is transitioning from ICE to EV and that means building up factories for EVs hiring a lot of people and then firing the ICE workers, when those car sales are going down. That is what is happening right now. They just cry for subsidies and obviously the oil industry is pissed off as well.
It is really intressting that the Chinese seem to replace the Americans and Japnese, but not the European manufacturers.
