If you're not ready to purchase a fully electric vehicle but still want to save on fuel, a hybrid is your best bet.

Hybrids combine a battery pack, an electric motor that drives the vehicle at low speeds, and a gasoline engine that kicks in whenever a speed increases, there's a need to move uphill, and necessary to charge the depleted battery pack.

Hybrid emissions — whether the plug-in or non-plug-in variants — are up to one-third lower, which means less gasoline needs to be burned to travel the same number of kilometers.

Plus, you won't have to run into charging issues that EV owners may have to deal with, unless the number of public charging stations increases and we could soon develop a battery-pack that depletes much slower and charges much faster.

Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is confident that there will be a marked increase in the sale of its hybrids, so much so that it has slashed its electric vehicle sales forecast by almost 40 percent last month. In its latest financial result released in November, Toyota detailed how the company is placing more emphasis on hybrid sales rather than EVs in its latest outlook.

While Toyota did not disclose a regional breakdown of its electrified vehicle forecasts, the Japanese auto giant said its electrified vehicles made up 35.3 percent of its total sales, with hybrids accounting for about 28 percent of Toyota's global sales and nearly that much of the company's overall operating income.