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Based on driving our 2013 SE for 210k miles I would certainly encourage buying a C-Max - points to make: The hybrid battery doesn't fail - I can't recall hearing of a single failure and I've followed this forum constantly since 2013. Not saying it can't happen but just not a concern. Without failures there's little (if any) information on costs but there should be plenty of used battery packs available from wrecking yards should one ever be needed. You don't need to analyze anything - just drive it like any other car and you'll still get great mileage. There are little things you can do to improve mileage if you get interested but a lot of those work on any car. As one member posted years ago, the car still cares [about saving gas] even if you don't! Extreme temperatures affect all cars. You might notice it more with a hybrid, since the mileage numbers are so much higher to start with, but you're still way ahead overall. After owning over a dozen cars I still consider the C-Max the "best" one overall! And after 210k miles its still enjoyable to drive and I expect to go another 100k miles.

Our 2018 C-Max has what we would consider well-tempered, not aggressive, regen braking. Pressing what I call the descent button on the gear lever invokes more deceleration force. But in normal Drive mode, we can coast smoothly up to a corner and turn without having to use much (if any) brake pedal. We really enjoy the handling aspect of the C-Max for that reason. My wife's commute mileage after 30,000 miles is 49.8mpg with about 50% EV . Sorry I can't recall the Regen stats - which indirectly says it performs seamlessly.