Every Sunday the round has to go into the square. And that doesn't mean my stomach, which has to say goodbye to the bed with the rest of me in the evening. It's the second most important topic this week. No, not about Brexit - it's about football. Before “we” walk onto the pitch tonight, I think about the PHEV - in everyday life. Again.
It also works without emissions - the Outlander Plug-in Hybrid from Mitsubishi
Our Time test vehicle drives purely electrically for shopping. We bring the daughter to kindergarten on a purely electrical basis - and when I have an appointment far from home, I drive to the appointment with the plug-in hybrid, completely free of any fear of range. With the Outlander PHEV we save a lot of fuel in everyday life. Instead of the loose 10 liters that would be blown in the petrol SUV on the short distance, we are at 22.7 kWh per 100 kilometers. Electricity. Green electricity, of course. After changing providers, we are currently paying 26,75 cents per kilowatt hour.
For every 100 kilometers, € 6.07 comes together. You are now saying that this is a theoretical value? He only drives a maximum of 50 kilometers purely electrically? Right. We usually cover around 42 kilometers per battery charge, now in summer. Whereby, the current summer differs only marginally from last winter. But currently we rarely drive more than 40 kilometers in a row. Ergo: The fuel consumption display of the Outlander falls. And falls. And falls. 0.9 liters per 100 kilometers as an annual mean. And now to the sport.
For me personally, football is as interesting as indoor halma is for penguins. But - it's EM time and so I noticed the local sports field a few days ago. Small game between village teams. About 600 spectators. And almost 200 cars right on the sports field. The license plates indicated short distances. There was hardly anyone there who had to drive further than 25 kilometers.
200 cars. On average probably 30 kilometers of driving distance.
Sport is healthy now. 22 men chasing a ball - a national sport for us. And that pulls. But 200 cars that drive - an estimated - 5.000 kilometers. Only on a Sunday. Only with us in the village! 5.000 kilometers. That is - if you assume an average of 6.0 liters of diesel, easily 300 liters of diesel - or 795 kilograms of CO2. 795 kilograms!
What if everyone had come with a PHEV?
Now one cannot assume that each individual would have caused a 25 km journey, 25 km return and therefore hardly any CO2 emissions - but - if you look at our experience in the endurance test - then you could at least reduce emissions to a minimum. This would not only mean that sport would be “healthy” - traffic there would also be healthier for us all.
In this sense, on a successful game of our team tonight!