This Overview Report on the status of Hybrid Vehicle Technologies and Programmes is the result of collaborative work carried out in Phase I of Annex VII between June 1998 and June 2000. It incorporates the results of both Subtask VII/1 and Subtask VII/2 over this period. The main text is based on the information collected by the participants on the status of hybrid vehicle technology and the R&D and implementation projects and programs in the various countries. As the topics that have been studied in Subtask VII/2 closely relate to the aspects that are analyzed in the Overview Report resulting in Subtask VII/1, the Topic Reports have been integrated into this report at the appropriate places. Whenever this is the case, authors of the Topic Report are clearly mentioned.
At the end of Phase II an updated version of this Overview Report will be published, incorporating the Topic Report on subjects studied in Phase II.
