We've got a Golf ehybrid - it is a company car so no outlay from us, bar the £900 for the EV charger install (got a mate to do it so saved a few hundred). It does about 31 miles on a charge and costs around 3p a mile charging at home and 8p per mile charging from work. On petrol alone it's about 55mpg, so 11p. As she does around 20.000 a year the cost of the install will be covered after about 9 months of driving. If we had to factor in the additional cost of a hybrid over a standard petrol I doubt it would make economical sense.
As a 'car' it does everything it should do well (although I find it very boring and souless to drive, but that's more an indication of my attitude to modern transport). Build quality is excellent, and while based at home 70% of driving is on electric.
Out and about is very different - although we don't actively seek out public chargers (why would we, when we drive past numerous petrol stations every journey and we can get a 450miles range in under 5 mins) we are happy to use them when available and working. Since February, the first one we used (BP Pulse) cost 31p per mile for a full charge, so not very cost effective but the second one was free. About 5 others we've tried to use have been out of order. A full EV car would be very impractical for us. The UK EV infrastructure is a very long way off....
