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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by Gravityloss on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:44AM (#32094245)
The used plug in hybrid we test drove certainly wasn't crappy. The torque was great, and driving purely electrically at low speeds was nice.

It was about half the price of a comparable used all electric car.

But it was still too expensive, so I ended up buying a used diesel, less than half the price of the hybrid.

Charging at home will probably be possible in a few years so then it's even more desirable to get a fully or partially electric car.

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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by Gravityloss on Thursday July 14, 2022 @08:56AM (#32095464)
To clarify, for our use case: electric: $40k, plugin: $20k, diesel: $10k. Charging is also still very immature and unreliable.

Electric cars can become mainstream but it requires still some problem solving, both technical and nontechnical.

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