In many ways the plug-in hybrids are a great stop gap .. it’s the best of both worlds, electric efficiency for typical commute and/or errand distances and gas as backup and for long distances. We have a 3 row family car like this and get something like 1100 mpgE. It takes the range anxiety away and for typical usage it works as mostly like an electric. One can imagine in a few years the electric range going to say 100 miles with overnight charging and gas as a backup ( ours is 20 so we end up going gas for a bit out where we are )