Back in the day, my wife leased her cars three years. One was coming up to end, and she didn't want to buy it (it was a nice car). OK, I had a pretty nice Caddy CTS a bit long in the teeth, so I loaned it to her to use. I still needed something to run about town, so I used a bunch of GM Mastercard dollars to buy a Chevy Sonic hatchback. It was a pretty decent car, cheap with $3,000 off the top, and I got an OK deal on it. I drove it a while, I was still working.
I'm thinking today, I COULD have bought a Chevy Bolt. I didn't drive very far in a day, maybe 30 miles. We had a garage and I could have put in a 220v line if not a main charger deal. I've said before, were I in this situation today I'd look at the Bolt as a possibly viable option for me.
One issue of course is that I didn't drive very far, so gas savings would have been minimal, the 30 miles needed about one gallon a day at $2 a gallon. Around here regular is about $2.50 today which is really cheap.
So, even then, it would make sense. Even today for us if we wanted a second car, it wouldn't make sense. We could get by with an EV today except for trips and I could rent something for the few driving trips we do each year. Maybe a PHEV would make sense, but in my view currently, the standard hybrid is the way for us to go.