Land Rover's 2013 hybrid will harness tech used in this - the Range_e plug-in hybrid, a star of the Geneva motor show. Today, Chamonix's high street is potentially more hazardous than its slopes. In 30 minutes spent circulating for snapper Stuart Price's camera, half a dozen mid-week skiers have very nearly stepped clean in front of the ice-white Range Rover Sport I'm driving. But then this particular Sport lacks one component key to alerting pedestrians to the risk of an approaching SUV. There is no supercharged V8 hum or diesel rattle here, just a near-silent electric motor.
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