The worlds top selling car not just the USA.
https://fiatgroupworld.com /2024/06/16/the-worlds-top-500-best-selling-cars-in-2023/
Oil burning hybrids are a dead end .
Even burning oil in a modern generation plant and using it in an ev is lower in carbon emissions than burning oil for propulsion can ever be even as a hybrid .
About 95% of a EV propulsion system is recyclable. Over time the carbon dept of constructing evs will go down . Burning oil for propulsion will never overcome the laws of thermodynamics explosions for motive force will always use more energy per km traveled then EVs.
they're unaffordable to keep operating - certainly beyond their battery lifespan.
Battery lifespan is measured in cycles.
Teslas are good for between 1500 to 5000 cycles depending on chemistry . Multiply that by range
Worse case numbers used .
Model Y performance 300 km real world range times 1500 = 450,000 km.
Few cars of any make get to 450,000km without major failure's even less with anything like the performance of a tesla y performance .
In modern ev's The chassis will fail long before the battery does. I have owned a jdm Toyota MCV21"Camry" wagon arguably one of the most reliable cars even sold. I moved on because it was costing too much to keep on the road over 400,000km as chassis parts would not pass nzs yearly inspections with out ongoing ultimately uneconomic repairs .
This does not mean you can not find outlying data points for evs that fail early .
Plenty of ice cars die due to catastrophic failure long before expected life span is reached as is with evs .
