Was chatting to a colleague about his Outlander PHEV. He returns up to 70 mpg on a 50 minute commute. He uses a specific strategy of alternating between ICE and electric to achieve this.
He freely admits that on a very long journey the electric motor contributes very little and the MPG drops to low 30’s.
Around town it can get up to 170 mpg as it is almost exclusively running electric. Not sure what duration it maintains that for.
Having read much about the owner experience of PHEV’s, I have concluded that they can loosely be categorised in two ways; Those who just get in them and drive, without any thought and those who actively seek to exploit the economy on offer. The former are those reporting awful mpg figures. However, I appreciate there are different motivations for buying one. Some buy them because of the low BIK and some buy because they genuinely want to return high MPG.