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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a place to charge (normal wall current is fine) the plug in Pacifica is great.  We pretty much only get gas for road trips.  It's so nice not to have to pump gas in hot, cold, rain, snow, etc.[/quote]

Not to threadjack, but do you have to charge every day?  There's a plug-in Pacifica on my preschool commute and I see them plugged in every morning (they drag the cord over the sidewalk to the street, which is why I first noticed).  We have a hybrid and get gas maybe every 4-5 weeks, so it seems wild to need to recharge every single day.  Doesn't braking recharge the battery at least somewhat when you drive?  Or is it completely different technology, more like a phone battery that has to be plugged in every 18 hours or so?[/quote]

np. Technically, you never actually have to plug in a PHEV. You can just run it as a hybrid. The problem is that you paid for a battery that is bigger than you'd find in a hybrid, but smaller than in a purely electric vehicle. It's the in between.

on a full charge, you get maybe 30 miles of electic only range, and then it transitions to hybrid mode. the brakes add some charge whenever they're used, and that's true whether it's a hybrid, PHEV, or EV. But brakes are not going to restore your 30 mile charge (unless you're starting at the top of some mountain in Colorado).

so if you want to use it in electric only mode and get that added PHEV benefit, it does need to be plugged in. [/quote]

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