@horsebox you are exaggerating with a non realistic approach... and let me clarify as well other thing. Even with a petrol let's say of 245 Hp, you do not always have the 245 hp (depends on the heavy foot), only if you kick it down and rev it up to a certain rpm that's when you have the full HP ... and it is the same here you get the 204 when you floor it... always... and when I said it costs gas, it is because, if you do not plug it to a charger. you also have the opportunity for example to drive full petrol for approx.. 50-70km and you get a 80%-100% battery again, but of course at the cost of having a 150 hp engine drag almost 1.6ton car... in the meantime even if using only petrol for recharging if you floor it because you need to, it will have 204 hp (also using the elctric motor). And for ex after 70km on gas/recharge, let's say when you are cruising with 140km/h, 30 min before entering a city... it is your choice if when entering the city you go full electric or otherwise keep it hybrid and floor it with 204 when you need to... because I don't believe you will drive only with kickdown... you can have fun but you cannot drive like this non stop... and being the same drivetrain of the VW GOLF GTE look at some
reviews online and you will see that the Golf in the GTE mode, so the sportiest max HP setting (at somewhere around 10% battery, engine starts just to recharge the battery... exactly because you might need to floor it so the care is assuring that you have enough electric juice to give you max power... but again costs gas)... and from what I have seen and estimate should not be more than 7 lit/ 100km so not more than 190 TSI and you get a double personality car, full electric in the city when you feel like (and keep in mind that I estimated like this without having anywhere to charge it)... I like the double personality.
I also am oscillating between 190 TSI and 204 Hybrid, but more and more I understand and lean towards the hybrid.