5 most economical plug in hybrids #automobile #car #carsales #hybrid #carbuying
These are the five most economical used plug-in hybrid vehicles you could buy here in the UK right now. If you’ve seen any of my videos over the last few days, you’ll know that we’ve done exclusively uh petrol cars, diesel cars, and um nonplugin hybrids if you like, just standard hybrid vehicles. Well, today is the final one of these videos, I promise. Plug-in hybrid vehicles. Uh the way that plug-in hybrid vehicles are calculated is very very different to a petrol car, a diesel car, or even a standard hybrid. The numbers that we will be talking about here are incredibly high. And that is because with a plug-in hybrid car, of course, you can plug it in, charge it, and get some range from the battery. So, for example, your car, if you buy a plug-in hybrid, might have a 50 mile range. And because of that, if you do the first 50 miles in fully electric, technically you’re using no uh gasoline. Uh therefore, uh you’ve got an infinite miles per gallon, if that makes sense. And it’s not until you use up that electric power and you start using your engine that the fuel economy figure starts to come down from infinite. So, these figures are very high. As I say, we’re going to start off with the car in fifth place, first of all, which is the Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid, of course, made from 2013 until present time with a mile per gallon of 141. As I say, very, very high. The only way to really compare plug-in hybrids is against each other. You can’t really compare them against petrol cars, diesel cars, or standard hybrid cars, not even electric cars, to be honest. Uh, the car in fourth is the Hyundai Ionic plug-in hybrid. Of course, made from 2017 until 2022 with a miles per gallon figure of 257. They’re getting crazier. In third place is the Kia Nero. Uh, made from 2018 until present. So, the current Kia Nero with a fuel economy figure of 283 miles per gallon. So, we’re getting near that 300 mile range. Now the next car cracks that 300 point and that vehicle is the BMW 330e made from 2019 until now uh with a figure of 304 mp gallon. Now when I looked at these figures it actually gives a range of between 314 and 353. Uh I went with the lower of the two figures because I did exactly the same thing for the next car as well. the car in first place, which is the car that came in second on the full hybrid uh list we did yesterday, the Toyota Prius. Of course, this time the plug-in version made from 2012 until present day. It’s changed a bit in that time, but essentially the engine has remained the same and it is capable of between 353 miles per gallon and 565 miles per gallon, which is just mad.
