Six things to know about new hybrid cars (if you haven’t paid much attention lately)

2017 Kia Niro Touring, Catskill Mountains, NY, March 2017For the past few years, plug-in electric cars have gotten more publicity than their small share of the market deserved. That's exactly what had happened to hybrids a decade earlier—and hybrids still outsell cars with plugs, even if they're no longer getting outsize publicity. We've been driving quite a few hybrids lately, and we decided it...