>>>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!
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>So which is better? Producing fuel in a non-green way and then burning it in a car for more pollution, or still producing it in a non-green way and then not burning it in a car?


I don't know. Nor do I know which has the larger CO2 footprint (baloney too!) or takes the more joules to produce, or, should I say, costs the most in energy expended per distance covered.