pacalis

How PHEVs and EVs Will Sabotage America's Drive for Energy Independence

You're arguing one side of the "Innovator's Dilemma."
In brief, invest in the now, more likely to fail in the future. Invest in the future, more likely to fail now. Obviously there's uncertainty about the future of battery technology and so it's hard to see the future advantages of current technologies.

Two other problems -
1. Batteries aren't necessarily rate limiting forever. Say a market for cars is 100 million, and at some point that saturates I'd rather have 100 million EVs on the road than 100 million phevs.
2. Prius don't need gap funding as they are already economically viable and don't need new infrastructure - so if there is to be investment it makes sense to put it in phevs.