Luxury automaker Rolls-Royce could soon begin building hybrid cars. According to Auto Express, the automaker is likely to begin making its first plug-in hybrid within three years — a claim strongly backed up by Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Otvos' thoughts on hybrid technology. "It will be essential in two years," he tells Auto Express, "maybe not from customer demand but through legal regulation on emissions." While Müller-Otvos doesn't say exactly where regulations will be stringent enough to mandate this in two years, many countries and states have begun tightening emission allowances on vehicles, so it may only be a matter of time.
This wouldn't be Rolls-Royce's first venture away from gas though: it previously experimented...
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