Study shows PHEVs exceed government estimates. There have been several studies that suggest that hybrid electric vehicles (also called PHEVs) are simply not the great environment saver that the marketing people are suggesting. A new study by the Fraunhofer Institute shows that on average, PHEVs use more than three times as much fuel as government estimates suggest.
The study is highly credible as it was based around on-board fuel consumption monitoring data from a massive 981,035 vehicles across Europe.
A gap of over 300% is severe and makes it hard for the EU to regulate something when the estimated numbers are so wildly different from reality. The EU is aware of this problem, and is taking some measures to fix it
Source: Electrek: Read The Article
PSR Analysis: For some time now, people have been arguing that PHEVs are not the planet saver that the marketing people are suggesting it is. This is just more data to confirm this. PSR
Guy Youngs is Forecast and Technology Adoption Lead at Power Systems Research
