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Phil leads the climate change team at the Transport Research Laboratory’s Centre for Sustainability. He also works on a range of sustainable transport research and consultancy programmes.
- Why the UK needs a new policy environment to realise the hybrid dream by
- Politics & Energy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 9:27 a.m.
If hybrids and other, cleaner, types of vehicle are to proliferate, the UK needs a new road policy environment, and "whole-system solution" to transport.
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- Why we can't rely solely on technology to make the future brighter by
- Politics & Energy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 9:25 a.m.
If hybrids were ever to go mass-market, it's likely the fleet would be highly varied in terms of engine types. Today, the hybrids with the highest levels of public awareness - such as the Prius, the Civic IMA and the various Lexus-h models - are all petrol hybrids. On UK roads, the only other type of hybrid vehicle is the diesel hybrid bus being run on a trial basis by London Transport. But tomorrow - at the latest by 2030 - we'll have a choice of petrol, diesel and bio-fuel hybrids. And probably also "fuel-cell hybrids", in which the principal power source is hydrogen, obtained either from filling stations, or reformed on-board from some other fuel.
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