] Is the DoD going green? The new diesel-electric hybrid
] Shadow RST-V certainly makes it seems that way. It uses
] less than 50 percent of the normal fuel weight of a
] Humvee, and runs on four magnet motors and two
] lithium-ion battery packs. A typical Humvee guzzles over
] 1,000 pounds of fuel per mission

With all the diffent forecasts about oil availability over the next several decades, makes since the military would start making hybrids or alternate fuel vehicles now.