Well… the hybrid car thing makes sense. How many places are built to have charging stations everywhere you’d park your hybrid car?
If you mange to afford buying/leasing/renting a hybrid car, that doesn’t mean you can afford to build out a charging station at your own home. Hell, you may not even be allowed to modify your existing property even if you could afford it.
So you wind up driving an electric car that is kept charged by a lawnmower engine burning gas instead of driving an electric car, charged from the power grid, with an emergency gas powered generator to increase your range or compensate for when the batteries’ capacity degrades.