Hybrid sales are booming — here's why drivers are buying them over EVs

• Hybrid sales are booming in the US. 
• Once dismissed as a "phase," many drivers are now choosing them over EVs.
• One Toyota exec told BI there are "no compromises" to buying a hybrid anymore. 

Hybrids are having a moment.

Sales of partially battery-powered vehicles, once ridiculed as a "phase" by the likes of Elon Musk, are increasing even as EVs stutter, with hybrid sales growing by 50% in the first two months of the year, while EV sales grew 13% in that time, according to research site Edmunds.