These hybrids are not really green at all. You have to plug them into an AC source to charge them. Batteries only achieve at MOST, 20% efficiency...and those lithium/metal hydride based batteries are FAR too expensive to produce efficiently. Plus the manufacturing process in building the batteries is VERY dirty to the enviornment.

The AC that charges yur battery is generated by a coal or NG fired electrical power generation plant and since no battery can store the same energy it takes to charge, everything under 100% efficiency is sent up the smokestack. You're trading the exhaust from a gas/diesel powered car for the exhaust from a power plant, which is no cleaner at all. Plus, you're not USING all the power you put into it.

Before anyone says it, I know that gasoline engines are also at best 20-22% efficient (meaning they turn 20% of the ergs put in into usable power) but thats getting better every day.

I think Natural Gas powered cars are the way to go. Just with this one new NG find called the Haynesville shale...right here in the US, theres enough natural gas to run EVERY electrical plant (home & business) and vehicle in the US for over 50 years. They think more. And NG burns much cleaner.

Battery vehicles are not the way to go.

I prefer men on skateboards anyway....