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Volvo has developed a hybrid garbage truck in an effort to reduce fuel consumption and loud noise. Watch a video of this new hybrid in action.

Goteborg, Sweden - Volvo Trucks is taking an important step towards commercialization of hybrid technology for heavy vehicles by launching two hybrid refuse trucks that will be tested in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms.

Jan-Eric Sundgren, Senior VP of Environmental Public Affairs, Volvo Group, describes Volvo's development of seven new models of trucks which run on various forms of alternative fuels.

Competing in the "alternative fuels" division, a converted Volvo S40 using ethanol recently won a 6-hour race in Nurburgring, Germany. Team HEICO SPORTIV's two drivers, Patrick Brenndorfer and Martin Muller took turns to help steer the vehicle to victory.

Volvo Cars now introduce yet another car of the future as an important part of the company's environmental concentration. This is the Volvo Recharge Concept. A rechargeable electric car with a very high charge capacity, that can also be charged during the journey, by means of its flexi-fuel engine.

Volvo Adventure, in partnership with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), is an educational initiative organized by Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Group that rewards environmental activities and projects undertaken by young people to improve their local environment. Out of 365 projects across 47
different countries worldwide, two 15-year-old students from Surabaya in Indonesia took home this year's top prize with their project "Useful Waste for a Better Future."

The Volvo Group announces plans to produce seven demonstration trucks that use varying forms of alternative fuels. Volvo officials say they created the vehicles to help curb European statistics that indicate cargo transportation contributes an estimated 4 to 5 percent of all global carbon-dioxide emissions. The seven Volvo FM trucks, which were unveiled in Stockholm on Aug. 29, are equipped with 9-liter diesel engines.

On climate, on energy security, time is not on our side.
Researchers at NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, say that the record heat of 2006 was, in large part, caused by us.