Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Electric Cars

The only issue as I see it with self-charging hybrids is that all the electric motive power still comes from burning the fossil fuel in the car. For folks who regularly need to do long distances the PHEV is a much better option in my view as you can still charge from your solar array if you have one and for local running around you'd be doing it nearly all on electric.

I did consider a Mini Countryman PHEV but didn't go for it as the electric-only range was too short for our needs (we often do trips in the 30 to 60 mile range) and we do long distances so rarely (apart from touring in the Morgan) that the pure EV made much more sense for us. The alternative choice was a BMW i3 but it was out of our price range.