When I last changed my car out (2015), I did look for a small hybrid - but they did not exist (purchased a Hyundai i10). I have been told because of the amount of room required for batteries.
Several years back, when the first electric cars were appearing (3004/5?), one of my daughters contacted me to say she has been told she has won an electric car - but it can only be delivered to an address inside the M25 (where I live she li ed in Somerset). Must say she was very dubious about this and said she was half expecting some little model car to be turn up.
I took delivery = and it was a real car, quite small. Deliered nto my garage and plugged into leccie. She advertised it - and in due course said a gentleman wanted to come to have a look, etc. She had checked out his credentials, all above board.
It was late October, and he came late afternoon. We went into my garage and he said he would like to take it for a test drive and he sat in drivers seat and me next to him. I had unplugged the charger just before he arrived. He turned the key -and nothing happened............ Turned it again - and again. We were both puzzled, I knew it was fully charged. Then he tried the lights and they worked perfectly!!!
At that point he (not me) realised that due to it being silent, it was working - but we could not hear anything!!!!
Did his test drive - all fine - and he purchased it, giving my daughter and her family a much needed money boost. Was quite unnerving, moving around in a totally silent vehicle.!!!