Buying an EV's is a senseless
Buying an EV's is a senseless decision. An EV needs 30 kwh /100 miles. if annual EV's sales would surpass 300k sales of prius every year, it would have been translated into 300k x 15kwh EV charging per day = 4.5Gwh per day x 365 days/year = US would have needed to add about 1.5 Twh EVERY YEAR to satisfy only the EV car needs, when the annual US grid electricity consumption today is about 4 Twh! That would have put an unprecedented load on electricity production and distribution system, save for the negative ecology impact.
Those who claim that prius hybrids are useless because they have a range of EV about 1 mile either have an IQ below zero, or they serve the anti-toyota dark interests. A 1.8L Toyota gas engine (in a corolla having similar performance with prius) gets around 30 mpg. Prius gets 50 mpg. That's 20 free EV miles per gallon of gasoline. On a 10 gallon fuel tank this translates to 200 free EV miles (using only the same amount of energy an ordinary corolla needs).
Plug-ins just as EV's have a huge battery x times bigger than prius nimh battery and therefore those batteries are more expensive and have a far worse environmental footprint. For the last 20 years we have been hearing about the toxic nature of NiMH batteries, due to nickel that is used widely in many products (stainless steel for example), but they avoid to mention 1) that lithium batteries are equally toxic too, 2) lithium mines must be constructed to cover the new car EV market.
EV's/plug-ins will never make sense for mass-production. They are a gimmick just like clean diesel was a gimmick 20 years ago. Since as of today the diesel scam revealed, EV's/plug-ins will take that role, in order to cut the prius success.