How much more complex are hybrid cars, comparing to conventional cars?

Can you get hybrid cars with automatic transmission or stick shift? Do hybrid cars require more maintenance?How much more complex are hybrid cars, comparing to conventional cars?
255 volt three phase motors for A/C compressor and propulsion. 38 Nickel Medal Hydrate batterys voltage inverter regular 12 volt battery for starting the gas engine regeneratorive and electro braking because the engine is not running all the time electronic powersteering too. Almost all hybrids I know of are automatic transmission.

Ok if maintence was necessary you should see the rubber gloves and leather gloves rubber apron and saftey equiptment needed to disable the high voltage to work on the car. And realising the gasoline motor may start at anytime to recharge the batterys. Actually maintainence should be about the same and even longer oil changes. But if a problem happens only Hybrid mechanics with proper equiptment can service them. Lethal voltages that can kill. Gas motor that can start up unless disabled oil change could be tricky for Gippy Lube and Tune.

Just imagine a 1960's mechanic landing back on earth. The gasoline engine mechanic seeing a hybrid in the shop for the first time. Complexity two propulsion systems electronic stuff and no sound running on batterys.How much more complex are hybrid cars, comparing to conventional cars?
I'm not aware of any hybrids which are manual transmission. Every one I've looked at is an automatic.



Hybrids actually require less maintenance than pure gasoline cars. For starters, the electric motor has fewer moving parts and the internal combustion engine is used less. The regenerative braking system saves the brake pads so they rarely if ever need to be replaced. The oil only needs to be changed every 5,000 miles.How much more complex are hybrid cars, comparing to conventional cars?
From a user stand point, they aren't much different to drive. They are even quieter in some because in some of the hybrid vehicles they don't turn on the gasoline engine until you get up to speed. So for the driver, it doesn't really make a huge difference.



From a mechanic's stand point, they are quite different. Depending on the hybrid, the technologies are different. The vehicles that run off Toyota's technology doesn't even really use a standard gasoline engine (the standard engine uses the Otto cycle), but the hybrids using a scavanging Atkin's cycle engine.



They don't typically require more maintenance, but they do require a specialist to work on them. Some components can have extremely high voltagee running through them, so you need to know what you're doing.

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