EVs don't make sense for most people, and I think it's hurting the efficiency of most cars because it eats up the battery supply. Most people rarely need gas for their regular commute if they purchase a PHEV. It's cheaper to buy and it's cheaper to replace the battery when it's old. Given the extra cost of EVs with the high-interest rate environment, it makes sense that sales are falling.
Except sales are not falling, and some of your statements are just opinions. PHEVs are also EVs. What you are getting wrong is that BEVs shouldn't be replaced by PHEVs, but rather every single ICE auto on the market
should at least have a hybrid option. (Note this could have been achieved
years ago.) In general, I'm for the free market's invisible hand, although that often leads to undesirable outcomes. We're not trying to electrify the personal auto market just because it's a cool, new thing. After decades of our foot-dragging on cutting carbon emissions, outlier weather events have really accelerated in just the past few years. If economic incentives don't work quickly enough, I'm fine with the looming EU/California ban on ICE sales from 2035+.
Although I said in the CyberTruck thread that I'm optimistic the U.S. BEV adoption curve will track that of California's (and beyond), it's not a foregone conclusion. Culture war nonsense has already infiltrated the room, as MAGA Republicans hear the former President make claims that BEVs are not good for the domestic auto industry or its workers. Given the American consumers strong preferences for light trucks and slow uptake of EVs in this product segment, it'll likely take a while yet. Manufacturers certainly didn't help when they all fumbled the Covid supply chain football, and then parroted Tesla by furiously raising prices to capture higher profits in 2022. More recently, Tesla has sparked a price war and federal subsidies have made the value proposition a lot more interesting.
Gotta love it that the resident assclown thinks a VinFast BEV is better than Detroit's EVs.