Your wifes uncle was either a liar who hates hybrids or you misunderstood him.
There are well over a million Prius hybrids on the road with almost no failures of the hybrid battery. The Prius also has a small 12V battery to run the 12V accessories. It is fairly common for this $100 12V battery to wear out at 4-6 years old, but not the Hybrid traction battery, which is designed to last the life of the car, and almost all do.
The link below shows a Yellow cab company in Canada that uses Prius hybrid taxi.
Taxi duty beats the crap out of a hybrid traction battery, with all the stop / start driving, yet the one featured in the story went 420,000 miles on the original hybrid battery and the car had over 600,000 miles total. The Prius is their lowest maintenence cabs, which the say pay for themselves in 3 years with the fuel savings alone.
I have driven a Prius for near 3 years now, it's the best working, most reliable and by far the cheapest running car I have ever owned, cost $23000 new. It has yet to average less than 50 MPG.
Click on the link and listen to what a Toyota hybrid really is like, there is lots of difference and GM's "mild" hybrids are below pathetic.
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