"If you drive a Porsche in the neighborhood and everyone is . . . saying you are environmentally unfriendly, that is not good for us," Michael H. Leiters, the head of the Stuttgart, Germany-based automaker's hybrid program.
Porsche, in conjunction with Volkswagens and Audi are working to develop a hybrid SUV by 2010. The Cayenne which is supposed to reduce the vehicle's fuel consumption by almost one-third.
Greenpeace protested the company's production at its plant in Zuffenhausen last week, accusing it of building "climate pigs." Porsche noted in response that in Germany, less than 12 percent of all exhaust emissions come from passenger cars, with Porsche's share less than 1/10th of 1 percent. Boston Globe
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