• Teenaged kicks in the hybrid age by Roger Kemp
  • Families & Lifestyle |Thu, 18 Oct 2007 3:46 p.m.

  • Buying a car, or indeed any other form of personal transport, has always been a public statement of values, status or hang-ups. So, in order for the majority of cars on the road to be hybrids, our relationship with personal transport would have to change significantly.

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  • Assembling the ideal hybrid package by Joanna Yarrow
  • Business & Economy |Mon, 19 Nov 2007 1:19 p.m.

  • Hybrid engines can play a major role in increasing vehicle efficiency, but their promise won’t be fulfilled unless the components packaged around them achieve proportionate gains. Right now there are some diesel cars that have lower emissions than the average hybrid. In the future, as public awareness of sustainable living grows, attention will naturally be drawn to other car components that could become more efficient and less environmentally damaging.

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  • Why the hybrid must be a stepping stone to something better by Bob Geldof
  • Environment |Tue, 11 Dec 2007 5:38 p.m.

  • As a society, we're bound up completely in the use of the car, because it's one of our two most important forms of communication, the other being the phone. At the beginning of the 20th Century, very few people had either device. And those who did couldn't possibly imagine the effect they'd have on the world economy and the way we live.

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  • Editor's overview by Paul Tyrrell
  • Urban Planning |Thu, 18 Oct 2007 3:37 p.m.

  • The purpose of this debate is to look at hybrid cars in a completely new way. Rather than speculating about where the technology is going, we’re asking our contributors to imagine it has already entered the UK mainstream, and what the implications might be for society as a whole.

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