Diesel vs FHEV vs PHEV

You need to look at how will your fuel savings be versus how much will it cost you to trade up to another car.

Personally I would not bother with a plug in hybrid for your mileage, you might as well go full electric if your going to be plugging it into a wall. I'd imagine there are a good few full electric cars out there that can well handle over 200km per day range if you can charge it at home every night. If you can charge it while at work frequently too it might be cheaper again. I would not buy electric if you are depending on public charging though.

I'd imagine that would be the likes of a Toyota hybrid that self charges without being plugged into a charger.

I'm no fan or expert of electric cars but why do you think you need one with a range of 600km when your say your doing 200km a day? Even allowing for some average local driving on top of that 200km daily figure, surely the average new EV out there now would suffice? For example IONIQ 5 starts at 38k with a bigger battery one starting at 45k - https://www.hyundai.ie/ioniq5/specs.html Hyundai claim the smallest battery version will have a range of 350km while the bigger battery version will claim to do 480km. Now even taking into account real world driving and conditions surely that would be enough for your daily usage? Just plug it in overnight if it needs charging.

If you change to a diesel, hybrid or EV it's going to cost you money to trade up from your existing car either way.

IMO 5.5l/100km for a Petrol Tuscon is very good.

That commute is absolutely prime EV territory. Even an old one + work charing if you could, would be a massive saving.

1.70[€/l] * 5.5[l/100km] * 2[100km/day] * 5 [days/week] * 35 [weeks/year] (accounts for days off)

That's €3,275 on commuting alone.

0.1[€/kWh] * 25[kWh/100km] * 2[100km/day] * 5 [days/week] * 35 [weeks/year].

€875 on electricity. I'll be corrected I'm sure on the best electricity price or efficiently, but you're looking at €2,400 saving with any EV, and both cars cost very similar money.

I understand the range anxiety (my commute is Dublin to Galway), but have you ever driven 600km in a day without stopping? My fuel tank is only 40l (PHEV) so the range is only about 600km at best. 10-15 mins at a fast charger will have you at least another 100km these days.

For Tesla owners with the SuC network and Ionity, this simply isnt the case anymore and hasnt been for some time

Lovely car you have there - I’d guess with your style of driving the diesel would be slightly more economical but I can’t see it getting less than 5 litres per 100km. Diesel is a bit cheaper so you’d save maybe €400 a year on fuel - but you’d get 115bhp manual versus 230bhp auto you have now- end result no advantage. PHEV won’t be any benefit Id say as you’d have higher consumption for circa 170km a day

Ioniq 5 would seem to be a perfect car, certainly the bigger battery would see your commute with a lot to spare and you would save circa €2500 a year as you’d be charging at night so would naturally move to a night rate charger.

Cost to change after a year? Probably won’t be v high either, I’d go shopping to see what deal you’d get

Plug in hybrid won’t save you money on the motorway with this kind of distances. Once the energy is gone, you will be towing 200kg+ battery with you.

Look at this, the best plug-in on the market right now seems to be Rav4. It has 18.1KWh battery, which will let you to drive 65km on the motorway / 90km in the city using electric motors, but once the battery is gone, the fuel consumption will average 6.5l/100km on the motorway due to the weight, shape of the car and air resistance.

The fuel consumption you are getting right now will be hard to beat even with the diesel.

Electricity is cheaper than petrol, this self-charging nonsense is ridiculous, if it was so good then most houses would have a generator powering them.

The OP would have been slightly better off with a PHEV for 200 km, say he gets 40 km from the battery and 160 km with the petrol doing 6 l /100 km, I think it would do near enough the same as the hybrid version 200kg is not going to make that much difference. 160 km @ 6 = 9.6 versus 11 litre for the hybrid. Charge it in work it is now 120 km = 7.2 liters versus 11, about 900 liters less a year, the price seems to be the same for hybrid or the PHEV, lowest spec diesel is the cheapest.

It would be entirely possible to get more than 40 km from the battery with selective use, most PHEVs have a button for the engine, I would tend to use it for the most demanding parts of the journey, for example, rather than use 20 % of the battery on a steep hill, use the engine and save the battery for the flat sections of the commute or slower sections.

Far as I know, the Outlander PHEV will charge the battery to 20-25% from driving.

yiu can’t create energy, so arriving home with a full battery wouldn’t be that advantageous.you might as well buy a magic perpetual motion Toyota hybrid in that case.