We happen to have one in mint condition that we plan to sell locally (Charleston, SC) because we need a car for traveling and the infrastructure just isn't there yet in S.E. United States.
Well this is a bit of a surprise to hear. Can you go into any details on your experiences with the charging infrastructure? Electrify America is very quickly building out a massive charging infrastructure, and I already see
chargers surrounding Charleston along all the major freeways. That's not slowing down any time soon.
Is it just that there aren't charging locations along the routes where you travel? Or are the chargers too unreliable? Does it take too long to charge when you're traveling?
Personally, we're a two-car household. One is the I-PACE, which we use for trips that require no rapid charging, or maybe just one charge along the way if we can time it to coincide with lunch or dinner. The other is an XC90 T8 (PHEV), which we use for trips that are less than 20 miles and for longer road trips that would ordinarily require several long stops to charge in the I-PACE.
When just sticking around town and doing the occasional 100-to-200 mile trip in the region, between the BEV and the PHEV we only have to buy gas maybe 6 or 7 times a year, which is close enough to 0 to give us the "wake up every morning with a full tank" benefit. And when on the longer road trips, instead of getting only something like 20 miles of range in 5 minutes of "refueling" from sparsely provisioned (and often unreliable) chargers, with gasoline I get more like 400 miles of range in 5 minutes pretty much wherever and whenever we want. And we don't have to be complete and total slaves to the limitations of the charging infrastructure.
So basically what I'm saying is that PHEV is the only thing that makes sense to me right now if you're going to be doing regular longer road trips in the United States.