It is a horses for courses moment.
PHEV seems good to me if you do a lot of mileage on motorways/A road plus the hop to town stuff.
If
you can charge at home(ish) so you can take real advantage of the PHEV/BEV bounty.
even better if you harvest your solar power.
you do short trips that can be done within EV range.
you can use the ICE for longer range flexibility (accepting BEV can do long range if planned accordingly?)
If all you are doing is long range I still feel a good E6 Diesel makes a lot of sense. The MB 300de phev models seem a great combo to me.
I do not get the value of the non-plug-in hybrids at all. Only way of charging them is through the ICE in the first place. Small benefit from in-city smog but marginal real long term benefit?
At this point the uncertain future profile of business travel means I am not pulling the trigger on any change and will sit in my ballistic earth flattening couch for a bit longer (so avoiding the waste of profligate purchasing) while everyone sorts themselves out. I keep looking at Tesla's but then listen to the V8 and it's simply no fight. Reduce my travel is the answer. I will use teams/zoom/faceplant/webex/Skype/etc etc etc more on my machine.
Mind you I just built a new heavy duty PC and today my new laptop arrived. The laptop power supply is 65w (and it runs and charges inside this limit) but the desktop is 1600w. I might need to use the laptop a bit more often before I boil the ocean.
