>>>>>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 Norway 9x% of the electric power comes from waterfalls, so for us this car is greener than the alternatives.
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>>I was going to mention that it can be green when there is hydro-elec, so hybrid cars up in the Fort Williams area of Scotland would be OK (so long as they stayed up there). If you take your car out of Norway, though (like to sneak across to Sweden for the cheap booze :-) all bets are off.
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>For me Sweden is within the 100km battery range, by ferry. :-))

What? the ferries run on hydro too!!!?