Benefits of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
Are you considering converting your current hybrid into a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle but youre wondering what the benefits are?
After all, being environmentally friendly is nice, but you should get some more benefits than just saving the planet, right?
Fortunately, there are a lot of benefits that will help you actually save money, not just the planet.
1) Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) can get 100 mpg.
Thats right, if youre going to use your PHEV for trips like your daily commute and youll be driving it less than 50 miles per day, you can get your gas mileage up over 100mpg. For long road trips, it will be less, but since most people take short trips on a day to day basis, youll be consuming very little gasoline. Some days your gas engine may not even need to turn on at all which means no gas consumption at all.
2) PHEVs Are Cleaner Than Gasoline Powered Cars
One thing skeptics like to say about plug-ins is that theyre simply transferring the pollution from cars to power plants. While its true that PHEVs are transferring the pollution, its not an equal tradeoff. ...