ok well whatever is in there still takes the seat up load space down a chunk. The pointless 4×4 junk takes up a load more till you have a tiny weeny boot barely bigger than my leaf! (50 litres bigger apparently as I just checked)
It’s still 460 litres and it’s a good regular shape rather than the leaf. Having a rear electric motor isn’t ‘pointless’ if you actually want a car with four wheel drive.
One of the main issues is see with the PHEV is that it’s been bought by people as a BiK tool, and then used as a regular petrol car for 95% of the time.
With all electric cars/hybrids etc. You have to deal with compromise at this stage in the development. The i3 for example is lovely but it’s still largely a city car and the ‘range extender’ only has a 9 litre tank which means extended journeys will need some careful planning.
If you want a full size family car with a decent boot, 4WD and the ability to run extended distances occasionally, but have the majority of your commutes of less than 30 miles with charging points available then a PHEV might make sense more than any other car. Certainly if your public charging is still free. But it will still be flawed in some areas compared to a ‘normal’ car… you just have to accept the compromise depending on what’s important to you and your personal circumstances.
One of the bigger issues I am seeing now is competition at electric charge points, if you can’t guarantee a charge at your destination point then your PHEV could well be mostly a heavy car with 100hp petrol engine that also has to lug about 200kgs of batteries
