Plug-in hybrids are the enemy of electric vehicles

These days, the number of electric vehicles has increased so much that apartment charging zones are running short.
However, Volvo and Mercedes plug-in hybrid cars with white license plates are always occupying several spots.
This wasn't a huge problem last year,
but with the surge in EVs starting this year, it's becoming very stressful.
Since most EVs have large battery capacities, once they are fully charged,
there is no need to charge them again for over a week.
But for plug-ins, they only make sense if they are charged every day.
So, while an EV owner charges once a week,
plug-in owners end up charging every single day.
Actually, the charging business operators are probably even more frustrated than the EV owners.
When an EV is parked, it charges about 60-70kWh for around 20,000 KRW,
but since plug-ins have small capacities, they only charge about 3,000 to 5,000 KRW.
Due to this issue, the law was amended this year to prevent plug-ins from using slow chargers for more than 6 hours, but because plug-in owners filed a barrage of complaints saying they didn't want to move their cars at night,
the regulations were changed to allow charging for up to 13 hours at night.
These cars are hardly being sold anymore,
but they will continue to cause even bigger problems until they are scrapped,
especially in apartment public parking lots.