>>>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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>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.

So long as we can get our Arab friends to let us use huge expanses of desert (enough to produce power for SO many needs), and trust that no one is going to saboutage this huge soft target (So they'd still have us over a Barrel). Greener in cities in that no smog but not greener where that lecky is produced. Just transference of the polution. This is just my naiive basic stance. I'll be happy to be enlightened with stats. but I haven't researched this.