Lexus Hybrid Sends Wrong Eco-Message in Scotland

Published: 08-Jun-2007

ALEX Salmond's attempts to boost the Scottish Executive's green credentials backfired yesterday as it emerged that the hybrid cars he is trialling are more polluting than those they could replace.

The First Minister and his colleagues are to test-drive two electric-petrol Lexus GS 450h saloons as possible successors to their current LPG-fuelled Volvo S80 SE cars.

Hybrid cars are seen as greener because they are powered by batteries at low speeds and petrol at higher speeds.

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