The issues of range anxiety and cost are alleviated largely by hybrids. I imagine the transition will be a slow shift from petrol -> hybrid -> PHEV-> BEV. We could use it as an opportunity to build out infra to support electric vehicles better to help drive the adoption of PHEV and BEV.
In China, it's straight to BEV and it has made the air quality, noise, and temperature significantly better. This effect is magnified since most people in China live in far denser cities than EU/America.
