PHEV (plug -in hybrid vehicle), like EV (electric vehicle), can run only on electricity alone.This is because the motor only has about 40-100km.The distance between passenger cars a day is about 40 km worldwide.When you go out, you can use the engine as an HV (hybrid vehicle) and use the convenience of running without charging on the way.

◆ The cruising range of EV has grown to around 400km

Today, EVs have been able to run around 400km in one charge.Even if you go out, for example, you can return without charging if it is a round trip from Tokyo to Hakone.Even in everyday life, if the daily use is around 40 km, it will be in time to charge once a week.And if you can charge at home, you don't have to stop at a gas station.

If solar power is installed at home, not only electricity in the home, but also EV and PHEV charging can be covered by renewable energy, and carbon dioxide is fulfilled, as the words say.

◆ You can live for several days with electricity from EV

In addition, domestic EVs and some PHEVs can return charged electricity to their homes.The power charged by solar power can be used at home at night.In the unlikely event that a power outage of a systematic power due to a natural disaster, EV can live with electricity from EV for several days.

In recent years, FCVs and HVs have begun to take out electricity in the event of a disaster so that home appliances can be used, but measures such as the power outage carried out in the Tokyo metropolitan area have been taken in the Great East Japan Earthquake.In the case of EV, if you charge it while electricity can be used, you can continue to use electricity.

Using refrigerators and smartphones as usual leads to peace of mind in a disaster.However, FCVs and HVs cannot supply electricity when the fuel runs out, so they have to go to the stand.

◆ Not only as a means of transportation, but also to guarantee the power of living

EVs are closely connected to the power of living and eliminating family concerns, even in the event of a disaster.Considering only the environmental performance of the car, it may look the same or feel like a big difference, but EV is not only a means of transportation, but also a equipment that guarantees the power of living, fundamentally value.Is a new one.

And PHEV, which has a charging function, is one of the values that is close to the EV and can feel the future in the era of electrification of cars.

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