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Originally Posted by AshenGrey
I can think of one *immediate* drawback to making PHEV standard: it will cut the appeal to the car a LOT. A PHEV would be of *no* interest to someone who lives in a condo or apartment (no place to recharge the car). Likewise, someone who has a townhouse in a high crime area (like me) would have difficulty recharging the car without some junkie stealing the power cord or some ghetto punk cutting the cord in half and then using the live wire to burn down the neighborhood. No thanks!
Basically, PHEV is only beneficial to folks who have locking garages in low-crime, white neighborhoods.
I don't care if PHEV is an *option*. I just don't care to see it as a standard feature.
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I wasn't aware that hybrids were that popular with appartment dwellers. But I understand in Canada, the appartment buildings have provisions for plug-in heater power. So that problem can be solved by working with the landowner.
As for high crime, teenager infested areas, there are technical approaches such as: (1) buried cable with a short outlet per parking place, (2) armored power cable, and (3) alarmed cable. If someone has a hybrid in a high crime neighborhood, I would be more concerned about the $25-30k dollar car being stolen or vandalized instead of the $15-25 extension cord. But is sounds like a nice problem to have . . . protecting your PHEV power source. It means you have a PHEV.
Bob Wilson