My daughter and I did the identical 29 mile journey starting on M25, then through rural roads, keeping one behind the other at the same speed. Her 2025 Born did 4.8 miles/kWh. My 2023 Octavia running purely on electric did 4.7.

I think that goes to show that there's no penalty in lugging around an unused petrol engine and fuel tank in a PHEV over the extra weight of a larger battery in pure BEV.

Please, please, plug in and do as much as possible on electric. That's the whole point of the plug-in vehicle.

Sorry, I don't understand your comment. My post was just about a 29 mile journey all on battery. What makes you think I use the petrol engine when not necessary?

22 hours ago, Octy-PHEV said:

Sorry, I don't understand your comment. My post was just about a 29 mile journey all on battery. What makes you think I use the petrol engine when not necessary?

Not saying you used the engine for your specific journey. It was well done and effectively showed your point, hence the "like".

Just saying PHEV are best used as EV's whenever possible, only use the ICE part as backup when going beyond EV range.

Yes, agreed. That's how I use it. I sometimes go several weeks without starting the petrol engine.

Reports now of those having issues due to few events of the engine firing up or firing up cold and not running for long or even getting up to the good operating oil temperature.

Going with a Fixed Oil & Filter change regime is just 'Simply clever'.

But the vehicle might have covered under 10,000 miles but the engine not doing very much of the powering over the miles.