>>http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/09/06/frankfurt-preview-volvo-recharge-the-swedes-go-series-hybrid/
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>>seems like a better design than the current options.
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>Maybe someone can tell me how these hybrids are greener. I mean, the lecky comes from your mains and somewhere fuel is being burned to supply this. If that lecky comes from a coal-fired generator then it's the people who live nearby who get the polution (same thing for "smokeless" fuel - coal - someone gets the smoke while the coal is being converted). We're told that we must be greener, and switch stand-by components off (something I do religiously btw) yet we have more and more devices on than ever before: phone chargers, flat-screen VDUs transformers, Nintendos, digital cameras recharging, digital radios (which consume more lecky than the trad. type btw), et al. Now the Volvo gets plugged in overnight!

In the long run the power will have to be produced in a green sustainable way. Solar is always my favourite. Large desert areas could be used as solar power stations and the power transmitted to where needed. AT the moment where a hybrid is greener is when an internal combustion engine isn't being used in a city.