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[quote=Anonymous]We have an ID4 and love it, and since it's newer and nicer than our gas car, we take the VW on road trips, too. I like that it sits lower than most SUVs, though, and if you prefer a higher ride, I don't think there's much you can do about that (though you can raise the seat pretty significantly).

The range really won't be an issue often, especially if you can install charging at home -- at an 80 percent charge, you can expect to get 220 miles or so, which means that in regular driving around the D.C. area or whatever, you're unlikely to get anywhere near needing to worry about charging more than once a day. For road trips, it does take some planning in advance, which you can get used to pretty quickly. We came home the other night from a week at the Delaware beaches, where the EV charging infrastructure is... not good, with a 9 percent charge left. Was a little nerve-wracking, but we also could have stopped to charge for five minutes near Annapolis at an Electrify America DC fast-charging station and avoided the whole problem. Which is what we'll do next time.

One thing about a PHEV like the RAV 4 Prime is that the only benefit of electrification you get from a plug-in hybrid is the efficiency and savings on (most of) your gas purchases. It still needs oil changes, has all the moving parts of an internal combustion engine, will require more maintenance and has more stuff to break. We had originally been thinking a PHEV was the way to go for us, too, but as I read more and spoke more to EV owners, the idea of ditching all that stuff became more appealing. [/quote]

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