What do you get when you cross a bus with a train? A dual-mode vehicle that has the versatility of a bus, the speed of light rail and fuel economy vastly better than either.

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In addition to extending several Métro lines and improving service, Paris is investing heavily in new tram lines with great success. The tram T3, which travels along the boulevards des maréchaux sud at the southern periphery of Paris, is carrying 100,000 passengers a day - twice what the bus line it replaced could carry.

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South Korean car manufacturer, Hyundai, has announced they are entering the hybrid bus business. We already knew they are going whole-hog into hybrid cars but buses are a beast of a different stripe. This is something they seem to have realized and so are approaching this market niche from a slightly different angle by beginning with a more affordable mild hybrid architecture.

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There seems to be tons of innovative technologies being proposed, tried and tested these days. Some of the wilder ideas disappear quickly while others, which were thought to have gone extinct, make a dramatic comeback. One such cool tech is the automotive turbine.

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London is one of the most noticeable battlegrounds in the fight for cleaner transportation. Headlined by the ongoing battle between Porsche and mayor Ken Livingstone, the fight also includes scuffles over motorcycles in bus lanes and new bicycle lanes. So, into this tempest, why not drop the oh-so-uncontroversial issue of hydrogen?

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Tuning firms don't generally find their way onto AutoblogGreen very often. Here's an exception. Japan's Job Design has come out with its new "Hybrid" suite of visual and suspension mods for the Lexus LS600h L and Toyota Crown Hybrid. (The latter employs the powertrain from the Lexus GS hybrid.) While the LS kit is rather hideous, the attention-starved driver should be pleased with the results.After all, the Lexus wears very subtle hybrid markings. Augmenting them with the Job Design kit ought to ensure that the car gets that second glance from onlookers. Then again, maybe they'll just look away in horror.

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Vincent Bolloré and Patrick Gruau signed an agreement last February to develop electric, hybrid and ICE versions of the the Gruau Microbus. €10 million will be invested in the joint venture. The Microbus Gruau Électrique will use Bolore's lithium-polymer batteries as well as ultracapacitors developed by Batscap, a Bolloré subsidiary. The electric Microbus will hit the marketplace during the second half of 2009.

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