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The article was orginally published at: Volvo to Make Plug-in Diesel Hybrid Car in 2012
Above is a Volvo V70 diesel plug-in hybrid demonstrator being crash tested (you can see that the battery pack is intact even after the “full scale” crash). Photo: Volvo
To Launch in Europe at First
Volvo has announced that it would introduce a diesel-electric hybrid in Europe in 2012. We don’t know everything about it, but the information that is out so far makes it sound promising: “It will be able to be driven up to 50 kilometres [31 mile, sufficient to cover the daily transport needs of 75% of European drivers] on pure electric power and when running on the battery, emissions fr…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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