Hybrids have all the complexity of a battery electric car plus all the complexity of a gasoline engined car plus components to put them together. Electrics are a proven and simpler solution. Brownouts and rotating blackouts happen during times of PEAK demand, which is the middle of the day. Electric power generation in California is some of the cleanest in America. That gasoline car also outputs more pollution as it gets older.
Electrics are the best technical solution.
But, I welcome hybrids or any genuine effort to measurably improve air quality in our cities. Not taking this seriously makes us all less human for accepting a state of affairs that can be changed. Unfortunately, corporations, while originally chartered to foster the public good, are now engines of profit optimization. The CARB and ZEV mandate are viewed by these corporations only as a drain on the bottom line. There is no consideration of potential long term improvement in air quality, nor is there a genuine alternative effort in promises of fuel cells or 35 mpg hybrid SUVs.