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IN DEFENCE OF PHEVs
I read your final long-term report on the Volkswagen Golf GTE (26 November) with amusement.
Will Rimell and Kris Culmer are not target buyers for this amazing car. I have off-road parking and a 13A charger and am lucky enough to have installed 4kW solar back when the government was giving people great returns on investment. I’m now in my seventh year of GTE ownership; I’ve now owned a Mk8 Golf GTE for a year, with a pretty average annual mileage of 9000.
We live five miles from the nearest town and five miles from the coast in rural Cornwall, and the Golf GTE gives us some pretty remarkable economy. The best between fills of the rather measly tank is 2600 miles – that’s 371mpg. Mostly it’s around 1200 miles; the worst has been around 600 miles.