Melville, N.Y. ? Sales of hybrid gasoline-electric cars and trucks have fallen along with gasoline prices, but in a market that looks like a train wreck they’re holding up relatively well, analysts say.

Mike Omotoso, global powertrain manager for the market research firm J.D. Power and Associates, said sales of hybrid cars and light trucks fell by 29 percent last month from a year earlier.

But, he noted, the entire car market was down by more than 40 percent.

“Interest in hybrids has decreased compared to last year,” Omotoso said. But they’re still selling more quickly than non-hybrid vehicles.”

He added that hybrid sales peaked last year in April at 41,235 vehicles; last month about 16,000 were sold.