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Workshop: Plug-in hybrids are "rubbish" after 15,000 miles
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A Croatian car workshop is warning buyers about plug-in hybrids and believes that many of the major car manufacturers' batteries are junk already at 15,000 miles. At that point, fixing, for example, a BMW X5 plug-in hybrid would cost the owner close to SEK 140,000.(14.000 e )

It is the workshop EV Clinic, specialists in electric motors and batteries, which in a post on its website has stated that plug-in hybrids are not sustainable and never will be if they are designed with small batteries. This is reported by the newspaper Carup .

The background is that the workshop has received several plug-in hybrids of various brands - including BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Kia, Toyota and Volkswagen - which are suffering from problems and it costs enormous sums to repair the cars.

According to EV Clinic, plug-in hybrid batteries fail on average at 10,000 – 15,000 miles. This is because the batteries of plug-in hybrids are smaller than batteries in fully electric cars and are therefore exposed to enormous strain.

The magazine Carup writes that every kilometer driven on electricity with a plug-in hybrid damages the battery pack four times faster than the larger battery packs found in fully electric cars.

Close to SEK 140,000
The Croatian workshop has shown an example with a BMW X5 whose battery was completely dead after 15,000 miles. According to BMW, it would cost the customer 12,000 euros, i.e. around SEK 137,852, to carry out the repair.

Plug-in hybrid. Photo: EV Clinics
EV Clinics managed to solve the problem for the BMW owner at a lower cost – but at the same time the new battery in the X5 will only last about another 10,000 miles.

- The cars are theoretically junk at 150,000 kilometers, in front of EV Clinics to Carup.