I was personally surprised by this as well. In fact, it's the single biggest reason I didn't purchase a hybrid vehicle outside of the initial cost being much h

I was personally surprised by this as well. In fact, it's the single biggest reason I didn't purchase a hybrid vehicle outside of the initial cost being much higher at the time. My thinking was, yes electric cars are quite a bit simpler and have enjoyed a lower repair rate due to that simplicity but here's a car with all of the repair issues that would be found in a gasoline vehicle, all of the added repairs that might come up from the electric engine and then repairs associated with all of the fancy features like regenerative braking and such, not to mention the battery. And they're in the extreme minority meaning I'd either have to hunt for a third-party shop that happened to have a really skilled mechanic who happened to understand all of these odd systems (say goodbye to trusted family friend who's a mechanic and really inexpensive) or get utterly hosed at the dealer. I had a car that had to have the transmission rebuilt multiple times -- a very costly repair ($2400/time in the late 90s) I guess, though, when I think about the common repairs that car owners experience, "Engine Failure" is rarely one of them, so maybe that's one of the core reasons that having two engines doesn't affect things much, but the battery, which is a part that has a guaranteed wear associated scared me quite a bit. Impressive for Toyota, for sure.