She does say that the long term future is probably BEVs. There is a good point though, since battery production is still limited it’s good to make hybrids that

She does say that the long term future is probably BEVs. There is a good point though, since battery production is still limited it’s good to make hybrids that get a lot of efficiency improvements for a small battery. But it doesn’t make sense at all in the long term, and since hybrids will drive the expansion of EV motor and battery production it’s a technology that will inevitably kill itself. You can also think of it this way: 1. Hybrids are better than ICE because it’s just plain dumb to waste energy in the breaks. 2. If you’ve already got a battery it’s silly not to make it a bit bigger and be able to charge it overnight and cut your fuel costs for your commute. So you get plug-in hybrids. 3. Now you just gotta make the battery even bigger, and you can cut outs LOT of complexity and drastically reduce operating costs. If you get up to 70kWh or so you will only go through a few charge cycles a year, so then for an average driver the battery will last about as long as the car itself too (probably about 20 years on average). But we need a LOT more battery factories if every car needs a 50-90kWh battery. Fortunately that’s coming.