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Glad to hear about the Hybrid battery lasting a lot longer and the mileage Paul and Snowstorm got so far on their Cmax.., Forita our 2013 C Max took a dent in the tailgate the other day , but it still closes and locks ok. Was told not worth fixing tailgate because value of car is roughly $4500 because we have 124.000 miles on her. We were thinking about trading her in with a heavy heart, because we were also concern about the Hybrid battery since Forita is now seven years old. But after reading your good reports, we decided to hold on to Forita. Thanks...

With 261k miles on MADMAX the HVB is working just fine.? Paul

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.