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Concept Cars
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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Photos: Pushing cars from pump to plug
(7/25/08)
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Plug-In 2008 Photo Gallery (7/25/08)
Plug-In 2008 News Roundup
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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 |
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A Hybrid Technology That Can Pay for
Itself: The first economically viable,
commercially-available hybrid auto
technology? (1/15/08) |
