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Fuel Cells

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Smart Cars

Future car technologies (wiki)

Concept Cars
Kawasaki concept bike offers transformative vision of the future

Nissan unveils radical BladeGlider (11/10/13)

Shanghai Motor Show

Not Dead Yet! Detroit Auto Show's Coolest Cars

LA Auto Show's coolest cars

Photos: Green Cadillac

Photos: Green is the theme at Detroit auto show


GM's latest concept car (1/9/08: CES 2008: Video: ZDNET)


Chevrolet Volt Concept: The plug-in revolution is coming (Nov. 2007: Popular Science)

The 2007 North American International Auto Show
The SAAB Aero X - the doors and roof retract up and forward as one piece

All Concept Car Videos - 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show (edmonds.com)

The Ford Mustang by Giugiaro (video)

The 2007 Detroit Auto Show (unveil schedule)

Mazda Nagare Concept Car (Video) (12/26/06)

Detroit Auto Show: Jaguar C-XF Concept (video) (12/26/06)

Detroit Auto Show:
Lincoln MKR (video) (12/26/06)


Video of GM's Hywire Concept Car (YouTube)

Video of the FUSE SCION concept car

2003
Dodge Tomahawk Concept Vehicle



Electric Vehicles

2023 NEW AUTONOMOUS Mercedes DRIVE?! Level 3 Autonomous EQS POV Drive! Interior Ambiente Review (5/7/2022)
Tesla set to upgrade range of original Roadster to 400 miles (12/26/14)

How Elon Musk Turned Tesla Into the Car Company of the Future (9/27/10)

Road Test: Four EVs You Can Drive This Year (9/27/10)

Shai Agassi's Better Place: Rolling out the electric car to the masses (7/16/10)


GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000 (10/15/09)
Cars: the next wave of Japanese electrics (10/13/09)

2010 Tesla Roadster Sport photos

Photos:
Electric vehicles you can buy right now (9/4/07)


The plot behind killing electric cars (8/28/07)

Electric car attempts 300 mph record (5/5/05)
Electric cars are charging into the marketplace With the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf available by year's end (11/17/10)

On-Road Electric Vehicle Inventory proves that there are tons of electric vehicles on the road today.

Batteries Included (Wired Magazine) - "The worlds first lithium-ion supercar is here. Zero emissions never looked so hot." And being able to go from 0-60 in 4 seconds, with zero emissions...what more could you need? This car will be built by Lotus and sold by Tesla Motors for about $80K.

A car that could help power your home: See a demo of the vehicle-to-grid concept car at the Alternative Energy Summit in Sunnyvale, Calif., utility company PG&E showed how owners of plug-in hybrid cars could one day use excess electricity to power their homes, or sell it back to the utility company at a profit. (Video: ZDNET)


Featured  Plugin  Vehicle Links

Photos: Pushing cars from pump to plug (7/25/08)
Plug-In 2008 Photo Gallery (7/25/08)

Plug-In 2008 News Roundup (7/25/08)
Green Tech Media

The Car of Tomorrow Has an Extension Cord (7/19/08)
Environmental Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Auto, Electricity Sectors Collaborate on Plug-in Hybrids (7/22/08)
- UltraBattery combines a supercapacitor and a lead acid battery (1/17/08)


Eight hurdles plug-in electric cars need to jump to get consumers charged
(11/16/09)
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A Hybrid Technology That Can Pay for Itself: The first economically viable, commercially-available hybrid auto technology? (1/15/08)

Gas Mileage


Top 10 Most Fuel-Efficient Sedans for 2011


8 budget-friendly gas sippers (10/23/05: MySA.com) America’s showdown on gas mileage

Hybrids

M5 plus electric motors = M8 Hybrid (14 HQ Photos)

Hybrid cars and the power grid (3/13/08)

A practical hybrid (12/21/06: San Antonio Express-News)


GM Works on Plug-In Saturn SUV Hybrid (11/29/06)

Automotive Engineers Team Up to Improve Energy-Saving Technology (10/1/06)

Mayor Menino Announces First Hybrid Taxi in Boston (9/22/06)
Military truck firm finishing up hybrid prototypes (5/4/06)

Volvo Group premieres hybrid technology for heavy vehicles (03/10/06)

Plug-in hybrid car movement is growing (Star-Telegram: 8/14/05)

Engineers modify hybrid cars to get up to 250 mpg (SFGate.com: 8/13/05)

Battery boost makes hybrids even thriftier (The Mercury News: 8/14/05)
The Aptera Typ-1 hybrid plugin will cost 30K and will be produced starting in 2008; and gets 230MPG.

Video of the 2007 Lexus LS600HL from the 2006 New York Auto Show from Motor Trend. Toyota claims that this HYBRID is THE most technologically advanced sedan on Earth. What it will do, is really out of this world.

GM Goes Beyond Hybrid: Chevy's Electric Car: From the Detroit auto show, General Motors has introduced a 100-mph, (640 mile range) all-electric hybrid (1/7/07: Popular Mechanics)

Other News

Can a race car that runs on recyclables go Formula One? (1/5/10)

10 Most Outrageous Cars of 2008 (6/1/08)

Carbon Motors: E7 - A Police Car Built From the Ground UP

The Disappearing Car Door

Photos: Fun cars hit the road in Frankfurt (9/17/07)

10 Most Expensive Cars.pps


Future Car (The TV Show)

Future car technologies (wiki)

A motorcycle that's fast, silent and green (8/2/07)(images)(video)

Could Your Car Also Power Your House? (4/13/07)

Bush Almost Blows Himself Up (4/10/07)
The Tweel (wiki) - combining the wheel with the tire

Loremo - gets 100KM on 1.5 L of petrol.

Motor City, AUS (5/15/07: Wired Magazine)

Power to Spare (4/24/07: Wired magazine)

Displacement On Demand

ZAP to Unveil Electronic Cars at CES


FORD'S MODEL U IS VORTECH SUPERCHARGED


Rinspeed Splash 'Hydrofoil Car' power point slide show and video.

The Caparo-T1 - 0 - 60 in under 2.5 sec.; 0 - 100 < 5 sec.; top speed of 200 MPH

The Naro - leans like a motorcycle and is half as wide as most vehicles.

Army takes carmakers' cue: Both use high tech to challenge traditions

Extremely Mobile Devices: How Silicon Valley engineers are transforming cars into very smart, very fast and increasingly opinionated information systems (9/12/11)

The Case for Diesel: Clean, Efficient, Fast Cars (Hybrids Beware!) (1/08: Popular Mechanics)

1 Gallon of Gas, 100 Miles — $10 Million: The Race to Build the Supergreen Car (12/20/07: Wired Magazine)

Technology Components

Energy Conversion Devices (wiki)

IRV'S SHEET: Of Battery Packs and Product Introductions (8/10/07)
UltraBattery combines a supercapacitor and a lead acid battery (1/17/08)

A123Systems to Market PHEV Conversion Packs in 2008 (5/1/07)
- also A123Systems introduces next-generation battery for alternative cars
A Hybrid Technology That Can Pay for Itself: The first economically viable, commercially-available hybrid auto technology? (1/15/08)

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