When the day eventually comes to replace my ICE pickup I'll probably replace it with a plug-in hybrid one. That'll be better on my pocket than a normal ICE pickup. But I can't expect it to give me the amount of free miles with a 50 mile range (before needing gas) as the fully electric car. That's because if I drive on average 30-40 miles per day around town, with a 50 mile range I have to charge it every day (unless I want to use gas). So on a rainy day (read: little free power from solar) when I'd charge it it would add to my power bill.
But with the full EV getting 230 miles range (when charged to 80%), driving it on average 30-40 miles per day gives us many days in a row that we don't have to charge it (thus we can almost always wait until a good solar day to charge it before the EV's charge gets low enough to force us to give up waiting and charge it on a day that would add to our power bill). Think of the EV as an appliance that my home's electrical system has to provide power for like it does my home heat pump and my water heater. The main difference between the EV and other "appliances" is that the EV usually doesn't demand I give it power at specific times or days -- I can usually choose to charge it whenever I have excess free power. That makes the EV and the solar work together in a way that's better than the sum of their parts. With a hybrid car (or truck) getting only 50 miles on electric power, I lose that flexibility on when I charge it. However, since it's a given that at least one of our two cars needs to be an ICE (for the times an EV won't cut it, especially for pickup chores), then having the ICE pickup be a plug-in hybrid will be the best I can probably do at achieving almost energy independence while also not being limited by an EV only fleet.
My ONLY reason to buy a plug in hybrid is that my commute is just under 10 miles each way. I could plug it in at night when I go home and not go to the gas station for months. Currently, I go through about a half a tank/week on the V6 Tacoma.