Hybrids take additional cost and engineering and it's hard to produce anywhere near the same distance that you could get on electric before turning to gas.

Interestingly, and Elon clearly knows this, rising gas prices and the attack on all "fossil fuels" will hurt his bottom line long term, as the electrical grid can't handle a country full of EVs and certainly raises the cost of energy tremendously since he understands the limitations of technologies like solar to produce.

This ultimately makes an EV less attractive, and may continue to make it less attractive long term when your power company asks you to keep your power usage down and gives you a lower price or credits on your next few bills for not charging there.

Essentially, EVs are for nerds. Gas is for utility.

Neither are all that great for long term future technologies, as both have limitations and good use cases.

EVs can get more torque on the wheels and also distribute torque more asymmetrically as needed which is useful.

Gas on its own splits the energy burden across multiple resources and that in itself is already invaluable.

Both are run on high carbon emissions anyway.