Hybrid cars not all they’re cracked up to be

I was sad to see Tux Turkel, an admirable journalist, rely primarily on Toyota, the world’s leading producer of gasoline and hybrid vehicles, to promote hybrids over electric vehicles (“Is Maine’s drive for all-electric vehicles bad climate policy?” July 16). Numerous studies show that not only are hybrids worse for the environment than EVs, but they can also be worse than gasoline cars.

A hybrid is more environmentally friendly than an EV in city-only driving,…