John Laverty had the plug in hybrid a year and a half but said 'range anxiety' was a serious problem for himA man who made the switch to an electric car hybrid said he felt 'conned' because the vehicle couldn't go as far as its manufacturer promised.He had the plug in hybrid car for a year and a half but has since switched back to a petrol engine.
"I honestly believed it was what I wanted; I believed that it was a sort of a gateway car that would take me to fully electric," he said."Once you get it and you realise that this is an EV, in your mind you're thinking 'I'll try and use it as much on electricity as I possibly can'. "It started to actually affect me - I didn't think when I got a plug in hybrid that I'd suffer this range anxiety that most people suffer when they have fully electric vehicles.An electric car is seen charging in February 2015. Image: Michael Flippo / Alamy"Every time I charged it up I was getting no more than 20, 23 and sometimes even less than that - sometimes I was getting just 19," he said.
"My car that I had was lovely, beautiful and quiet - it was a great car - but it's the infrastructure.E-cars charged at charging stations, 27-9-20. Image: dpa picture alliance / Alamy"40% of the people here live in terraced houses they're not gifted with the drives that they can plug in their cars there," he said."They were badly misused up here in the North."In the 18 months I had that car...
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