If you're into going green for your wedding then the hardest part is finding a compromise between ethical choices and practicality, especially where transport is concerned. What is a bride to do when rain threatens and you have to get to the church on time?

Thankfully iChauffeur offer just the right hire service. Their Lexus Hybrid car is the next best thing to a horse and carriage, or a stroll to the church of course. Running on electricity and petrol the car is a great way to get just the right balance. Find out more form the iChauffeur website. [via Bridalwave]

Everyone's favourite hotel heiress was proudly declaring herself the "first ever" owner of a hybrid car last week, which will no doubt surprise the thousands of people driving hybrids the world over.

Ms Hilton followed up her remark with the suggestion that everyone should buy a hybrid car because they are "awesome". Which is no doubt true if you can afford a Yukon SUV, Paris's latest set of wheels.

If you want to be one of the cool kids (and escape the new 'showroom tax' that's being slapped on more polluting cars) but are looking for a hybrid car that's nearer your price range, you might want to check out Green Car Site, which has some great deals on the Fiat 500, Toyota Prius, Chevrolet Matiz and more. I was especially taken with this deal on the Smart Fortwo at £6,900, as tested by us back in October.

[Via Ecorazzi]

This elegant sports car with a top speed of just under 100mph is about to take centre stage at the Geneva Motor Show. Sound a little sluggish for a sports car? What if I told you it produces hardly any noise and only water vapour - zero carbon emissions - from its exhaust?

The lightweight hydrogen car is packing advanced fuel cells and the energy storage system promises 250 miles per tank of the cleaner, greener fuel. The British-designed car is predicted to achieve 0-60mph acceleration in seven seconds, but the first official test drive is yet to be done. The result of a £1.9m collaborative project, partly funded by the UK government, the Lifecar also has wooden seats and interiors, an aluminium chassis and pretty much no extras in order to keep the weight as efficiency-friendly as possible. Sounds great - except that you won't be able to hear the traditional sports car roar.

Geneva Motor Show [via Shiny Shiny]

Ecomodder is no usual petrolhead site: it's a gathering place for those who want to pimp their rides the green way.

Everything on this site is about tweaks you can do yourself to make you car sleeker and more fuel-efficient, with some amusingly far-out results (see picture). On the discussion forums, enthusiasts enthuse about aerodynamics, fossil fuel-free options and more, with tips on where to find components to turn your ordinary car a lean, green mean machine. And for those who don't want to get welding, there's a good discussion on fuel-efficient driving, too.

You'd expect the Aussies to know a thing or two about harnessing the power of the sun, and sure enough Adelaide in Australia has become the first city to introduce an entirely solar-powered bus to its fleet. Looking much like a normal bus, the 'Tindo' (from the Kaurna name for 'sun') will carry passengers for free around the city centre, and will re-charge as it goes.

Unlike most 'solar' vehicles, the bus has no conventional engine, so it's 100% solar, not hybrid. This makes it a very quiet and smooth ride and doesn't belch out smoke for any passing pedestrians or cyclists. If only we had enough daylight in London, I'd love to see the buses over here sometime soon! [Via EcoFriend]

I'm not even going to pretend that it's in any way green to own a supercar - even if I had the $2.3 million this one costs. Still, it's hard to believe that a car a little more powerful than the average Bugatti Veyron (if not, reportedly, as well engineered) would run purely on E85 ethanol fuel. Yet here it is. Leaving aside the long-term concerns about biofuels, that's a move in a sustainable direction that is still unusual for a supercar.

The 4.7 litre V8 engine cranks out a buttock-prodding 1018 horsepower that means this carbon fibre beauty can rattle through the gears from 0 - 62 in 2.9 seconds with a top speed of 250 mph. There is a pimped version of the Veyron doing the rounds that pumps out 1200bhp, but at these levels, why quibble over 100 horses here or there? Green? Not quite. Gorgeous? 'Fraid so.

[via Shiny Shiny]

MIT has been showing off its latest futuristic concept: an electric two-passenger vehicle called the City Car, which can 'stack' together with other City Cars to form a more socially responsible way of getting around town.

It involves 'stacks' which are placed around a city, receive incoming City Cars, and charge them up again. Then commuters simply hop in the fully charged vehicle at the front of the stack and drive off: MIT says the idea is similar to airport luggage trolleys, although they're keen to stress it's not a straight replacement for cars, taxis, buses or trucks.

It's also got Wheel Robots inside...

My colleagues over at Shiny Shiny dropped in on the giant toy-box of a show that is the Stuff exhibition in London earlier today. Among the wonders of technology they got to play with, was the sexy, eco-friendly Vectrix electric scooter. See it in all its glory in the video, below!

During the Tokyo Motor Show of 2007, car-giant Toyota showed off their eco-friendly hybrid concept car.

Dubbed 'RiN', it not only promotes environmental sustainability, but also looks after its users, with heated seats, an oxygen-level conditioner, pinpoint humidifier and green grass to reduce ultraviolet rays from reaching its passengers. It also does wonderful things to the people outside of the car too, in the form of headlights with light distribution. We want. So bad :( [Via Tech Digest]

Here's one Ferrari that won't pollute! It may not have quite the same effect on members of the opposite sex either, but hey, at least you won't attract as many gold-diggers...

The zero-carbon-emission, testa rossa red limited edition Segway shares all the planet-friendly virtues with its predecessor, so if you're lucky enough to live somewhere where it's legal to ride one, you can move effortlessly indoors or out, and nobody will be able to miss you as you blaze by.

Tempted? This baby will set you back £6,000 [Via Shiny Shiny]

It's not just Hollywood A-Listers that are zooming around in eco-friendly luxury at the moment - London fashionistas are at it too. I've ganked this video of Shiny Shiny's Zara test driving the latest Smart Car model, the Smart ForTwo; a big hit at London Fashion Week. Being tiny, Smarts are all pretty hot on fuel consumption, but they've improved it even further now. This model's been given a 'very good' overall rating by environmental research unit the Oko Trend Institute. Whizzy!

Now every celeb under the sun is 'green', it was only a matter of time until this happened: it's a custom made, ten-seater, stretched Prius limo.

The long, lean green machine is was made by splicing an ordinary Prius in half, re-forming it, re-stuffing it and welding it back together. Perhaps impressively, its makers say it requires no additional power, yet still retains its fuel economy, at over 50 miles per gallon.

Maybe the makers of the perilously tiny G-Wiz should take a leaf out of Hollywood's book and apply a bit of 'stretching technology' to their own models?

There's nothing I'd like better than a spot of cycling right now (though possibly not in this morning's drizzle), but unfortunately my shiny new electric bike *still* hasn't arrived from Urban Mover. I ordered it in the summer time, but it's still not here, and it's probably safe to say that the summer is now well and truly over. Personal bike gripes aside, those of you lucky enough to own a bike will probably be turning your thoughts to the imminent clock change on the 28th October.

ECOutlet has done a nice post on its company blog to advertise its range of eco-friendly bike lighting. First up, their new Micro Bike Lights have been designed by the supreme Trevor "wind-up" Bayliss. One minute of winding provides 90 minutes of illumination, which should be more than enough to get you home and back. .

Quiet cars, namely Hybrids and Electrics, are under the spotlight after the US National Federation of the Blind voiced its concern about the noise they generate, or rather their lack of noise. In a world that invented double glazing and earmuffs to combat traffic noise, among other things, it would seem that there’s a positive to a loud engine – it lets pedestrians know there’s a car coming and, of course, this is helpful for people with impaired vision.

In a bid to persuade more petrol-heads that green cars can be cool, General Motors has set up a test drive scheme dubbed "Project Driveway" for its new fuel-cell Equinox SUV.

Over 100 customers will be given the chance to road test the car before the end of the year, and it seems that GM is bent on establishing it as a status symbol: they will initially go to celebrities, policymakers, the military and other "influentials", but the public can also sign up online.

Unfortunately, the UK has not been chosen as a testing site, because so few charging points have been installed; the US, Germany, South Korea, China and Japan are the five countries selected, as each already has a workable infrastructure. [Via BBC]