Plug-in Evaluation Planning

This is a practice table looking at plug-in vehicles. In January 2017 we should a new crop, a wider selection, so I'll be making a similar table then. But I wanted to give folks a clue as to what I value:

	metric\model	2014 BMW i3 Rex	2014 Chevy Volt	2014 Ford C-MAX Plug-In Hybrid	2014 Toyota Prius Plug-In
1	TSS-P safety	Yes	No	No	No
2	volume ft{3}	99	108	119	116
3	MPGe	117	98	88	95
4	MPG	39	37	38	50
5	total range	150	380	550	540
6	EV range	72	38	-	-
7	EV blended	-	-	20	11
8	Gas range	78	342	530	529
9	EV HP	168	149	91	24
10	drive	rear	front	front	front
11	Savings $	3500	2750	2750	3500
12	eBay sold $	26480	16500	12000	13999
13			11300		15950
14			10000		14500
15	eBay not sold $	29980	15750	11780	16250
16		30980	17500	14197	18800
17		30980	17977	13500	16495

• TSS-P (or equivalent) - REQUIRED - 66 year old driver, +66 year old mobility impaired
  
• Interior volume - REQUIRED - 2 adults and 2 dogs
• City MPG - weight 5x
• City range - weight 5x
• Drive wheels - rear 3x to support towing
• Drive HP - 3x to support towing
  
• Highway range - 3x
• Highway MPG - 3x
• Purchase $ - bracketed by $28.5k to $33k, source Bill Penny Toyota for 2016 Level 3 with TSS-P

Requirements and weighting are derived by individual family needs. What works for two elderly adults would be death for a young family of two adults and three kids or a single driver of any age.

Bob Wilson

 

Thanks @john1701a. My focus is more on plug-ins and I noticed the BMW i3-REx was not in their list. As for source data, @bisco, I'm using www.fueleconomy.gov source. I'll be able to download the CSV file from them and only have to research prices.

Bob Wilson