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Yet another study shows plug-in hybrids aren’t as clean as we thought

Baua Electric

Multiple recent studies have shown that in the real world, plug-in hybrids pollute much more than their labels would indicate – though still less than pure-fossil vehicles – both because they overstate their capabilities in electric-only mode and because people simply don’t plug them in. Gaps fell between 176% (Finland), up to 287% (Poland).

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Nuclear Energy Brinkmanship in Ukraine

Cars That Think

In a simulated fallout map produced by Ukraine’s national weather service and posted Sunday, a radiation plume spreads northwest and reaches Poland and Lithuania within 72 hours. That jeopardizes the entire plant, which uses grid power to cool all six of its reactors and spent fuel pools.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

Green Cars News

Portuguese drivers are the greenest in Europe when it comes to buying cars with an average CO2 rate of 138g/km (eg. Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. Poland / 153 / 154 / 7. League table results: Ranking 2008. Portugal / 138 / 144 / 1.

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