[carabiner]

In present day reality though, most people live in cities in cheap apartments that won't have chargers for at least a decade. I watch woodpeckers destroy the wood trim at my building, you think mgmt is going to add EV chargers any time soon? Hybrids have superior reliability and lower cost of ownership than pure gas which is why uber drivers and nyc tax have adopted then en masse. All of the disadvantages of hybrids are theoretical or from some lofty "elegance" perspective when in the real world, hybrids work brilliantly. Toyota has been ruthlessly pragmatic with their cars and that's why they've worked. It's admirable how much they've avoided the EV fad and stuck to practical vehicles. It'll be at least a decade until they're on par with hybrids.

[tempestn]

Definitely lower cost per mile due to the fuel economy. Clearly they make a ton of sense for taxis. Do you have evidence for the higher reliability than pure ICE cars? I hadn't heard that, and it seems counter-intuitive to me. I certainly know anecdotally I've heard many claims of Prius hybrid batteries failing. (Which isn't necessarily a huge problem, but just saying it adds a point of failure without, as far as I can tell, removing any.)