Mitsubishi Outlander (2012 - 2021) PHEV Design 4WD 2.4 auto 5d Owner Review

This car is comfortable, quiet (super quiet in electric mode) and handles as expected for the body-type. It is marginally larger than my previous car in outside dimensions but it is considerably smaller inside, especially luggage/load carrying capacity, mainly due to the PHEV battery under the floor and seats. Calculating mpg is skewed by electric charging, but average for 280 miles of mixed driving is 46 mpg (plus 1 electric charge). Fully charging the 14kWh battery costs £2.20 and provides an effective range of 20-23 miles (verses manufactures claimed 28 miles), so approx. 10p/mile. Filling the petrol tank (45ltr) cost is approx. £57.00 and gives a petrol only range of approx. 250 miles, so 23p/mile. My combined electric and petrol cost for first 1500 miles is £255.00, so 17p/mile. My previous car cost £64.00 to fill (55ltr of diesel) which gave a range of 570 miles costing 11p/mile (46 mpg). Getting a home charge point installed has taken 4 months, including waiting for several providers to respond to enquiries, and the electricity board needing to up-rate the supply fuse on the incoming cable to the meter. The electric 4X4 drive system is particularly fussy about tyre fitment and balanced tyre wear. If you drive exclusively on electric power the petrol that you do have in the tank will go stale (E5 encourages condensation in the tank) and make the engine run poorly when it is needed. And the onboard LAN/Wifi transmitter to connect with your smartphone has a pathetic range, so when you are not in the car and want to check the state of charge you have to stand so close you might as well just go and open the door to see the dash meter, and because it does not have WAN also prevents your smart phone selecting mobile data when you are in the car and want to connect to the internet! Living with a PHEV DOES NOT live up to the manufactures/green-lobby/government hype!