• Home chargers reduce emissions of plug-in hybrids by 38% • The amount of electricity charged increases more than fourfold • EPoS Economic Research Center analyzes corporate fleet of 1,263 cars in Germany / Bonn, Mannheim, 12.03.2025 – The decarbonization of Germany’s transport sector needs to pick up speed to reach national and international climate targets: In 2024, sales of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) slumped, according to official statistics. At the same time, research shows that Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) use more fossil fuels than necessary. A new study provides evidence that corporate CO2 emissions and energy costs associated with plug-in hybrid company cars can be cut substantially by investing in home charging stations. These findings are published by the EPoS Economic Research Center at the Universities of Bonn and Mannheim in the discussion paper “No Place Like Home: Charging Infrastructure and the Environmental Advantage of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles”. (....)