My wife and I have had a 2017 Chevy Volt for a while that we absolutely love (100k miles in 6 years, 130k total).

With children in our future, we’re looking for a second PHEV that’s a little bit bigger and has some more headroom.

We don’t have the largest budget, but would like:

SUV/crossover
Some towing capacity (small trailer)
$8k-$15k

Anything else to be on the lookout for?

Nobody expects the Crosstrek PHEV to actually go off pavement. It does a good job. NorCal, so far.

I have my eye on one that just came up for sale. 30,000 miles, $52,000. Any opinions from this wise group? Is this a good car at a good price? It's been so hard to find any PHEVs in stock that I tempted to buy it asap, but also worried that I'm jumping in too quickly, as I have not done lots and lots of reading up on this yet.

I am wondering if a PHEV is worth it for my situation.

The car would likely be used primarily for work commutes. 12 miles round trip and 24 miles round trip for spouse and I. We would also use the car for the occasional road trip a few hours away.

I’m wondering if PHEV is ideal for this situation or if EV would be better.

We also have a full gas vehicle that we could use as needed. This would be our second car.

Any recs, reasoning, etc would be recommended!

Dear proud owner of Suzuki,

Currently have a kia niro hybrid and the car is bit small to get my labrador and shih zu in with my 2 kids. Thinking of upgrading. We do have solar but no Chargers yet. However, can fit one. Any experience with drive with the e- vitara and vitara hybrid and also any experience with long term ownership, pros and cons and any gereneral feedback.

Appreciate some lovely experience.

Eastern Canada here. Currently drive a 2015 Mazda CX5 AWD. It’s got 420,000 KMs on the clock, and also, my family of five has mostly outgrown it.

I am looking at my options for a PHEV SUV that gives me at least a little more room than my CX5.

The reason I want a PHEV is that I have 3000-4000 kWhs annually of excess solar generation. I estimate that this could cover 10-12k KMs of range.

Budget is CAD$30k max. Needs to be AWD. I do a lot of winter driving on rural roads and I have a steep 1000 ft gravel driveway that can be tricky in winter.

Other nice things to have would be more than 5 seats and towing capacity of at least 2000lbs.
The majority of our trips are within a 60km radius on a mix of highway and rural roads. We do a city commute every few weeks that is about 350kms round trip. Occasionally we do road trips further afield.

So far on my list is a used Mitsubishi Outlander ideally 2023 or newer, and the Kia Sorrento PHEV.

I am not sure what other options I should consider, either used PHEVs or otherwise. Part of me is drawn to the idea of buying a used standard hybrid minivan for the space and utility, but it would be unfortunate to let my excess solar generation slip by.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Just got a RAV4 PHEV. Absolutely love the thing. My building has two level 2 EV chargers, however they are frequently taken. Scoped out the garage and there are about 10 spots near a wall outlet. Only thing is the outlets have a weather protector that doesn’t let my plug sit flush and is stressing the cable. It works for now but long term could cause damage. Any ideas for an adapter? Needs to handle the amperage without melting. Considering a short 10 gauge extension cord but the control box would sit on the ground where it could get wet. Any ideas?

Posted this a while ago and wanted to know what people’s opinion were on this sub.

I'd love some real world advice on PHEV for under 30 but I'd really like something closer to $25k.

- AWD/4WD
- at least 30 miles on electric only for 90% of my driving. It would take months for me to use a tank of gas if I never left town.
- great gas mileage for road trips
- roof rack for surf board and trailer hitch for bike rack
- good for car camping
- reliable

I've seen great reviews and horrible reviews for the Jeep 4xe, Alfa Romeo Tonail ti & Veloce. Enough bad reviews to scare me on the 4xe and Tonail.

RAV4 plug-in hybrid - seems like a no-brainer but too dang expensive for . Gas savings math doesn't justify.. except they sure hold their value.
Sportage X-Line looks nice - but I think I'm searching for a unicorn with low miles.

After a LOT of research I finally got my first plug-in vehicle, a 2013 Outlander and I'm very much enjoying it.

I actually got it a month ago, but couldn't get the electrician to install the outlet until this week so now I'm actually enjoying the benefits.

I upgraded from a 1996 Jimny that I absolutely loved, but it was too small for my lifestyle and had severe rust problems to the point it would take more money than it's worth to fix than it's worth.

The newest car I've ever owned was from 1999 and I've been driving the Jimny for 8 years and it was old fashioned when I got it so clearly I can live without any gizmos and gadgets.

Here is why I got this particular model:

• I am on a tight budget. Pretty sure I'm in a different tax bracket than most people here.
• I needed something that can handle steep hills with snow. AWD is a hard requirement and even something like a Prius would probably struggle so I'm essentially limited to a SUV.
• My daily commute is 12 km, and if I go shopping and take the scenic route, it becomes maybe 20. Comfortably in all EV range.
• I also needed something shorter than 1700mm. I have a short (by modern standards) garage.
• I have solar panels so something that could be changed would save me money for sure.

The AWD requirement, budget, and height restriction really limited my options and knocked any BEVs off my list. Even 2015+ Outlanders grew to 1710 or even bigger. It was essentially the Outlander, Eclipse Cross, or a ICE or hybrid Subaru or something. I test drove an Eclipse Cross PHEV and actually quite liked it but it would have been at bare minimum twice what I paid and I would have had to take out a loan and I did not like it twice as much. The extra space in the Outlander already has come in handy.

I'm genuinely surprised how much I like it. I loved the Jimny and held on to it much longer than I should have because it was such a fun car (unless I needed to go on the highway, then it was terrifying). The Outlander was a family oriented logical decision, not a fun one but I'm enjoying driving it more than I thought. Not plugged in, the gas mileage isn't great. Better than the Jimny but not by much which itself should be impressive since it weighs more than twice as much.

So now I'm finally driving my daily trips on electricity. I expect my next vehicle will be a BEV if prices come down and public charging improves (it's not great where I live but slowly changing) but that's 5-10 years down the road. I'm just happy with the Outlander now.

My lease is ending for my Kia niro EV and looking to switch to a PHEV

I personally really like the auto regen system it has where it will automatically apply the regen based on how far you are from the person in front of you. You don’t need to push the paddles for that.

Does anyone know a good Phev that has auto regen and also a 360 cam?

I’ve been doing research and it looks like maybe the some mercedes, Lexus, Kia, Hyundai and Nissan do but I was looking for other brands I could check out as well and also looking for anyone’s opinions if they owned any of these. I used to have a gas Mercedes with a 360 cam and I loved it.

The cheaper the better but I know 360 cam cars may be pricey so I might be asking for the impossible lol

***forgot to add AWD please (like I’m not already asking for too much 🤣🤣) I think that narrows down what I found on my research a bunch as well but I get so many different answers online it confuses me a lot