Ideally you want to replace the most kilometers per year by electric ones. This means short trips. Who cares if you drive a thousand on the single long vacation

Ideally you want to replace the most kilometers per year by electric ones. This means short trips. Who cares if you drive a thousand on the single long vacation trip per year if you drive cumulatively ten thousand on short ones. So a plugin hybrid makes a lot of sense from CO2 and city air quality sense, as well as from fuel savings sense. They wouldn't need a huge combustion engine or anything. I don't know why they are so rare or why they tend to have extra complicated big twin turbo combustion engines etc. As far as I know, the BMW i3 with REX (Range ExtendeR) is the only one in this category, and it hasn't been updated since 2013. For example the Huyndai Ioniq plug in hybrid has a 1.6 liter 105 kilowatt gasoline engine and a full sized gearbox. Is that necessary? The car sales sites suck at ordering cars by the relevant feature which is pure electric range. The manufacturers have always been hopeless with their web sites. Tesla is probably the only one worth going to and that is only because they have so few models and options. With others the best option is to download the pdf:s with prices.