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 To many people, sustainable living means more than just recycling bottles and cans. For people who embrace the green lifestyle, the purchase of a hybrid vehicle makes perfect sense. Hybrid vehicles run on a combination of 2 or more power sources (thus the term hybrid). In today's vehicle market, this usually means an electric motor and an internal combustion engine—the electric motor provides energy to start the vehicle and will generally run until the car reaches 30 to 35 miles per hour. Once more power is needed, the combustion engine (powered by gasoline), takes over.
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Cars have always been a status symbol for those who drive them. Now that the hybrid is available to more than just celebrities, gas-electric hybrid cars have become the new status symbol for the green consumer. But watch out for deceptive marketing and assumptions about intrinsic environmental friendliness—not all "hybrids" are the same shade of green.
Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas' Editor-In-Chief, discusses the topic of Hybrids and the future for Honda's alternative fuel technologies and vehicles with Alicia Jones, Corporate Communications Supervisor at 
