[nixass]

There was a market research in Germany and plug ins are mostly owned by upper class, using it for cheaper/free parking and (ab)using government incentives for co2 grants. Funniest thing is there's very low percentage of owners who drive them in EV mode, they barely bother to charge them, it's being ran in ICE mode all the time. It's purely for playing the system, catch few benefits (parking) and not giving a shit about the environment. Beat me for source, read it few months back

[tecleandor]

When you can get a 455hp (317 ICE + 145 Electric) Volvo XC90 Recharge T8, and qualifies as "zero emission" and gets free parking all around the city... you understand the classification is quite a joke.

Of course, it's absurdly huge (2300Kg, 5 metes long...) and its price is almost 100K€. It's not precisely popular.

[sidewndr46]

Why is such a vehicle considered zero emissions?

[tecleandor]

At least on Spain, they give that category to Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicles with a range of more than 40km in full electric mode.

https://www.dgt.es/nuestros-servicios/tu-vehiculo/tus-vehicu...

[sidewndr46]

ah alright. Definitely an odd decision, as to my knowledge there is no requirement to ever plug in the car. So it can wind up basically just running as a gasoline vehicle.