Comparing to the F-150 hybrid is strange. It increases MPG from 20 to 25, which is good. However, older pickups were already above 20MPG, and diesel trucks ar

Comparing to the F-150 hybrid is strange. It increases MPG from 20 to 25, which is good. However, older pickups were already above 20MPG, and diesel trucks are way better than that. On top of that, the F-150 is now aluminum, and isn't matching the fuel economy of the old steel frames. So, they're clearly wasting a lot of full economy on something. Anyway, the 2023 Prius has a 13.6 kWh battery in it, so even Toyota appears to be abandoning the hybrid (vs PHEV) approach. First-generation EVs had a bit over twice that many kWh, and for all the graphs in the article that compare apples-to-apples PHEV and EV, we see a halving of CO2 emissions per car. So, PHEV vs EV looks like a wash. That's why the article argues for more hybrids, which would make sense if we replaced all ICE cars as quickly as possible until hybrids built today are also retired. If you're betting that lithium supply won't ramp fast enough to meet demand (and that none of the non-lithium technologies on the horizon pan out), then they have a point. However, betting against capitalism's ability to cost optimize products and mine stuff is usually a bad idea. The article also points out that hybrids only have a 5.5% market share at this point, and they've had decades of non-battery-limited time to penetrate the market. That suggests there's a demand problem (probably due to perceived reliability and other maintenance issues).