Hybrid car [credit: Toyota]

The electric-only motor bandwagon is now rolling in the UK, and already it looks like open season on hybrids.
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Plug-in hybrid cars are not as good for the environment as manufacturers claim because they can’t operate in electric-only mode if it’s cold, the vehicle has been put in cruise control or the electric motors can’t generate enough power.

That’s according to a green transport campaign, which highlighted the limitations of hybrid vehicles as part of a market review, says This is Money website.

Greg Archer from Transport & Environment said one leading carmaker ‘is conning its customers’ with claims of green grandeur.

When ministers announced earlier this year that the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars would not only be fast-tracked by five years to 2035 but also include hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars, there was uproar from…