Seriously. Based on my experience with VW electrical systems, they're the last people on Earth I'd want designing a hybrid.
Heh. Yeah, VWs are notorious for electrical problems. Maybe the only people worse would be Lucas? A car mag once said "Lucas lives" about some British car they were reviewing that supposedly didn't even use Lucas electronics anymore but yet they still had electrical gremlins. A Brit coworker had to explain to me what was meant by that and the notorious rep Lucas got.