Myth: Hybrids are far less polluting than petrol-powered vehicles

Hybrid vehicles are much better than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, as far as emissions are concerned. They are the way forward, not EVs. 

Fact:

Hybrids are significantly better than ICE vehicles, when it comes to emissions. They emit about two thirds as much carbon over their lifetimes as their petrol-driven counterparts. (Plug-in hybrids emit slightly less than this.) EVs, by contrast, emit only a third as much CO₂ as ICE vehicles, and only a quarter as much if powered by renewables. If they are also produced using renewables, then their carbon impact is just 4 percent that of legacy vehicles.