Hybrids Vs PHEVs vs All Electric, page-1146

The difficulty with Hybrids is that there are 3 systems that all have to work together to be viable, an ICE, the electrics and a system that controls and integrates the first two. Now all that will most likely operate as designed when new and probably just as well in 5 years but add in a bit of salt air, some dust, gravel, mud and possibly some accident damage then even if its a Toyota there is sure to be something spitting the dummy after 10 years. A hybrid is going to be fiendishly complicated to trouble shoot when those 3 systems each with their own microprocessors have to be taken into account.

I will be going straight from ICE vehicles to EVs because I always plan on keeping my vehicles more than 10 years and there is no way that I want both of them under one bonnet and also because Hybrids find most of their efficiency gains in stop start city and suburban traffic. On the highway they are no better than a standard small engined ICE anyway.