Welcome to the newest installment here at Discover Hybrid Cars—Green Gal of the Week (more or less). Why the qualifier you ask? Because, as Bukowski said, “My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.” Translation: we mean well, we’re just easily distracted and prone to lethargy.

And, just to keep you titillated, this week we’re merely announcing the new installment series, as we don’t really have a Green Gal to award this week, or an award to give her. So, while our interns furiously scour the warehouse for prizes, our crack reporter is out and about trying to locate some gals worthy of the award. Stay Tuned.

Now, save for our token right-leaning intern, the staff here at Discover Hybrids loves sticky-hippy sensibilities. Of course, we like ‘em best when they’re stuck on skinny hippy celebrity girls with flowers in their hair and patchouli in their pockets. But we digress.

The Fun Theory, as it states on their site, “is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better.” Not a bad premise. And, judging by the amount of attention this campaign garnered, it’s not a bad way for VW to align themselves with the green side of things.

The above video, The Speed Camera Lottery, is the winner. Go here to check out the other entries and the Fun Theory campaign.

Who knew that plugging in an electric car could double your household's energy consumption? Looks like Microsoft did. So they’ve teamed up with their old cronies at the Blue Oval (see the Ford Sync) to sell us on their solution, Microsoft Hohm.

Microsoft Hohm, a web based application out since last July, lets you analyze how much energy your home sucks every day; in hopes that if you can track it, you can reduce it. By teaming with Ford, the dynamic duo plans to help consumers “automatically manage recharging their vehicles.”

Sounds harmless, even helpful, until you read this curious announcement on the same site: “Today, we’ve announced the infusion of Microsoft Hohm’s technology into Ford’s aggressive global electrification strategy.” Aggressive global electrification strategy? Someone call Spiderman—Electro’s on the loose!

Back in January we brought you news of the new Audi E-Tron as it was unveiled at the Detroit Auto Meltdown Show. Well, just to prove that this Ingolstadt circuit breaker is for real and not another non-operational car-show art-project trucked in for the big show, we’ve got one on video.

The video is brought to us by Dan Neil—The LA Times’ (soon to be The Wall Street Journal’s) Pulitzer Prizewinning auto journalist, via YouTube. Though it doesn’t show Neil flogging the all-electric Tron car (on the roads or with his usual offbeat criticisms), it does prove that the full electrics are coming—whether we can afford them or not.