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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by seneca on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @07:22PM (#32089981)
The biggest concern I've heard for hybrids is lifetime maintenance cost. You have both the legacy ICE and transmission, as well as electrical components to maintain. That's a major hypothetical disadvantage to all electric.

Does anyone have numbers for this?

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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by twblalock on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @07:28PM (#32090032)
Toyota Priuses have been sold for over 20 years (closer to 25 actually!) and they are very reliable. There are Prius taxis with half a million miles on the original battery.
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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by jointpdf on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:19PM (#32091591)
This is a great site for long-term reliability data on many cars: http://www.dashboard-light.com/vehicles/Toyota_Prius.html. The Prius has the highest reliability score of any compact in their list.

This explains where the data and scores come from: http://www.dashboard-light.com/click-here-first/

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