Besides offering you a 14 tonne Volvo electric truck, which would probably take 250 years to break even, the best I have driven that gives unbelievable fuel economy, and has zero range issues is the new 23 Corolla hybrid.
I was in this car for a solid week, and by day 3 without even trying was getting high 2’s in fuel consumption.
The new models have quite a decent size and very usable battery, where the older models would only give you about 1km of battery driving only.
The new model is very smart compared to the old model in many ways, which I thought are brilliant.
As most of you know I have just got a new company X Trail.
Volvo looked at the “e power” as a greener alternative but it is as only roughly 1km /100k better on fuel than mine, but $15k more expensive.
As you said Mark, they are not that economical at all.
Driving to the airport at 3:30am this mornin, a mix of 110, 90, 80 and 60kms, the car returned 6.5L/100k.
pretty good for a bigger SUV.
But the new Corolla hybrid range is very smart and very economical.
you would easily be well under 5’s and down even better everyday.
A friend of ours bought a Lexus PHEV, it has a decent battery range of 90km, but after that, it’s extremely thirsty.
Mazdas are still suffering from bad road noise in their cars, which seems they can’t solve over the last 6-7 years or so.
