But why did you buy hybrids and not BEVs?
Because availalble PHEVs are a better solution right now. I tried to talk my wife into a Tesla model X but she felt it would be too pretentious.
What if you and your wife had to leave home to work from 9 to 5?
Huh? Sometimes we do go back and forth to home. We can charge while we're home and in any case can get 2-3 roundtrips from home to work without needing to charge.
What if your daily commutes were more miles/kWh each?
What if you lived in a flat?
Etc.
In all those cases, driving a PHEV would still mean much better gas mileage and would mean less maintenance costs.
My phone eats just a few Wh not in the tens of kWh daily.
Completely irrelevant to the point.
No one said that PHEVs are the answer for everyone - just that with current available vehicles and charging infrastructure they are a very good option for most people.