For Washington-based architect and urbanist, Howard Decker, buildings like Linked Hybrid form part of the problem and not the solution, although he applauds the efforts to "green-up" the project.

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The plug-in series hybrid avoids the entire chicken-and-egg problem of pure electric vehicles.

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Toyota's woes were compounded on February 9th when it said it would also recall 440, 000 hybrid vehicles, including the celebrated Prius, to fix a problem with their brakes.

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The government thinks the new hybrid engineering course for 14-year-olds will help rectify the problem.

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