GM Volt plug-in hybrid
Chevrolet VoltAge - Get Plugged In

This section provides links to various energy production and storage systems as well as new transportation systems. So, for example, fuel cells are discussed as well as the vehicles that will use them.

Also, lots of links to new types of mass transit systems such as monorails are provided.

• Energy News & Info
  • Open Source Energy Network (OSEN)
  • Pure Energy Systems
  • Enviro & Energy in Science & Tech News List
• Progressive Automotive X PRIZE
  • X Prize offering $10M purse for 100-mpg vehicle - CNN.com
  • Tesla, Aptera Among the Dozens Vying for the Automotive X-Prize - Wired - Mar.20.08
  • 'Green' teams go for auto race - Cosmic Log - Aug.1.07
  • X Prize Cars
    
• Fuel Cells & Hydrogen Power
• News
  • Fuel Cell Today
  • FuelCellCarNews
  • FuelCell.org - News
  • FuelCellMarkets.com
  • Future Energies
  • Hydrogen Guide
  • Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter
  • Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Investor
• Fuel Cell Powered Planes
• Hydrogen Powered Planes
• Fuel Cell Powered Cars (see below)
• General Info:
  • FuelCells.org
  • Fuel Cells Info Center
  • Fuel Cells DOE
  • NREL: Advanced Vehicles and Fuels Research - Hybrid Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles
  • Collecting the History of Fuel Cells: A Smithsonian Research Project
  • Fuel Cells - Google Directory
• Companies:
  • Apollo Energy Systems
  • Arthur D. Little, Inc. Consulting
  • Ballard Power Systems Inc.
    • technology hat trick - 2004 - demo of high performance, durable fuel cell
    • Technology "road map" - the goals for energy density, durablity, and costs by 2010.
  • Directed Technologies Inc. - various hydrogen related projects
  • Dynetek Industries -.Advanced Lightweight Fuel Storage Systems
  • ElectroChem
  • Energy Related Devices
  • EyeforFuelCells - The Business of Fuel Cells
    
  • FuelCell Energy Corp.
  • FuelCellWorks.com
  • Greenvolt - fuel cells
  • Hpower Corp
  • IdaTech | Advanced Fuel Cell Solutions
    
  • Intelligent Energy
  • Jadoo Power Systems -
  • Mechanical Technology, Inc. - several fuel cell subsidiaries
  • Millennium Cell - out of business as of 2008
    • PDAs and Laptops Powered by Suds - Wired News - Sept.4.03
  • Ovonic - Metal Hydride Fuel Cell
    
  • Polyfuel
    • Making New Energy Sources An Easier 'Cell' - Technology Review - Jan.5.05
      
  • Plug Power, L.L.C. - Fuel cells for home power
  • Proton Energy Systems
• Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC)
  • Solid Oxide Fuel Cells - review from April 2003
    
  • Bloom Energy | Be the solution
    
    • Capitalism to the Rescue - Green Tech Rising - NYTimes Magazine - Oct.5.08
    • The Mystery of Bloom Energy - EcoGeek - Dec.29.06
  • Franklin Fuel Cells
    • On-Board Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Delivers 50% Efficiency - Green Car Congress - Mar.31.05.
    • Franklin Fuel Cells demonstrate SOFC that can run on gasoline - Fuel Cell Today - Mar.30.05
• Micro fuel cells
  • Smart Fuel Cell
    • Fuel Cells That Fit in a Laptop - Wired - Jan.23.02
  • MTI Micro
    • Samsung's Fuel-Cell Gambit: The South Korean outfit is backing a project to build handsets powered by fuel cells instead of conventional batteries - Business Week - May.18.06
  • Manhattan Scientifics, Inc.
  • MEDIS Technologies: Clean Energy for the 21st Century
  • UltraCell
    • UltraCell Corporation Announces Portable Methanol Fuel Cell System - Physorg.com - Aug.24.05
  • Articles:
    • Helicopters with Fuel Cells - PhysOrg - June.6.08
      
    • Fuel cells in laptops edge closer - BBC - May.31.06
    • New fuel cell promises five times the energy density of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells - gizmag - May.1.06
      
    • Fuel cells to change laptop use - BBC - Mar.10.06
    • Toshiba touts fuel cell-equipped MP3 players - The Register - Sept.16.05
    • NEC develops small, long-lasting fuel cell for mobile PCs - Fuel Cell Today - June.29.03
    • For Far Smaller Fuel Cells, a Far Shorter Wait - NY Times - Mar.16.03
• Zinc/Metal Air Fuel Cells
  • Alchemy Enterprises, Ltd.
    • Alchemy Obtains Option To Acquire License To Technology Developed by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratories Cal Tech Would Become an Eight Percent Shareholder - Alchemy Enterprises, Ltd. - May.25.06
      
    • Alchemy Obtains Option to Acquire License to Metal-Air Fuel-Cell Technology from Cal Tech - Green Car Congress - May.25.06
  • Electric Fuel
    • Electric Fuel Zinc-Air Battery System
  • Metallic Power, Inc. - Developing Efficient Power Through Zinc Air Fuel Cell Technology
  • Powerzinc
  • SOLZINC
    • SOLZINC: Storing Solar Energy in Zinc for Electricity or Hydrogen Production - Green Car Congress - June.26.05
      
  • Zinc Air fuel cell - Corrosion Doctors
  • Zinc Matrix Power
    
• Other types of non-Hydrogen powered fuel cells
  • Fuel Up With Banana Peels - Wired - Dec.2.05
• Fuel Cells for sale
  • FuelCellStore.com
  • AirGen specifications - Ballard - 10KW, 120V/60HZ AC, fuel cell for sale
  • Electric Fuel Corporation Home - Instant Power cellphone batteries and chargers, electric vehicle batteries and lifejacket lights
  • Greenvolt - Fuel Cell products for sale
  • Voller Energy Portable Fuel Cells
    
    • Shipments of new portable fuel cell commence - gizmag - May.25.05
• Fuel Cell Education & Hobbies
  • The Fuel Cell Store - Educational Materials
  • Heliocentris
• Hydrogen Economy
  • WaterCarOne Water Car Contest Water-Fuelled Car Sustainable Mobility
  • National Hydrogen Association
  • Hydrogen: The Perfect Fuel
  • EERE: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies Program
    
  • International Hydrogen Drive 2004 - actor Dennis Weaver's project
  • How Hydrogen Can Save America - Wired - April.03 issue
  • Japan Fuel Cell reforms won't Charge Up Platinum Market - Fuel Cell Today -Dec.15.02
  • H2PIA - World's first hydrogen city
  • Hydrotopia - Salon.com - Sept.24.02
  • The Phoenix Project: Shifting to Hydrogen from Oil
  • Articles:
    • SRNL Hits Milestone in Nuclear Hydrogen Production - Green Car Congress - July.6.07
    • Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense - Physorg.com - Dec.11.06
    • The Truth About Hydrogen: Wild promises abound, but can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy. - Popular Mechanics - Nov.2006
    • The Hydrogen Economy - Physics Today - Dec.04
    • Iceland launches energy revolution - BBC - Dec.24.01
• Hydrogen Production & Storage:
  • HydrogenSource -- A fuel processor to provide hydrogen generation for fuel cells, an alternative energy source, reforming gasoline, natural gas, fossil fuels. Fuel reformer, processing.
  • Low cost electrolysis
    • Cheap Catalyst Could Turn Sunlight, Water Into Fuel - Wired - Aug.3.08
    • MIT claims 24/7 solar power - EETimes.com - Aug.1.08
    • Researchers at MIT Develop New Water-Splitting Catalyst That Works Under Benign Conditions; a Giant Leap - Green Car Congress - Aug.1.08
    • "Major discovery" from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution - eurekalert.org - Aug.1.08
  • AMMINEX
    • Hydrogen storage technology
    • Danish Researchers Reveal New Hydrogen Storage Technology - ScienceDaily - Sept.8.05
  • Clean Hydrogen Producers Ltd. - solar concentrator to crack water into H and O.
    • Swiss Solar Hydrogen Company in Agreement With Spanish Power Generation Company - Green Car Congress - Aug.18.07
  • Electro-Chem-Technic :: Mini Fuel Cell
    
    • Electro-Chem-Technic :: NaBH4 - Sodium tetrahydridoborate
  • Hydrogenics
    
    • Hydrogenics to Supply Hydrogen Refuelling Station to Basin Electric for Wind Hydrogen Project: Hydrogen provides ideal storage medium for intermittent wind energy - Hydrogenics - Jan.12.06
  • Ovonic Hydrogen Systems - "safe metal hydride storage"
    
  • QuantumSphere
    • Nanoparticles could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline - EETimes.com - Feb.27.08
  • SiGNa Chemistry
    
    • Hydrogen Production from Sodium Silicide Powder; Prospects for On-Board Generation - Green Car Congress - July.14.06
  • Gallium/Aluminum
    • Engineers perfecting hydrogen-generating technology - Purdue - Aug.27.07
  • Home H2 production:
    • Backyard Fuel Cell - Wired PLAY - Mar.2007
  • Storage in solid materials
    • High-tech sponge could take hydrogen cars further - New Scientist - Oct.3.08
    • 'Nanoporous' material gobbles up hydrogen fuel - New Scientist - Nov.7.06
    • Carbon Nanotubes Store Hydrogen in Step Toward Hydrogen Vehicles - PhysOrg.com - Feb.16.06
  • Ammonia borane
    • Progress in Synthesizing Ammonia Borane for Use in H2 Storage Systems - Green Car Congress
    • Synthesis of ammonia borane for hydrogen storage applications - Energy & Environmental Science - June.20.08
    • Hydrogen storage breakthrough - Gizmag - June.24.08
    • Storing Hydrogen As Ammonia - WorldChanging - Sept.13.05
  • Articles
    • Sugar-powered Cars: World's Most Efficient Method To Produce Hydrogen Developed - Science Daily - Apr.10.08
    • Solar Hydrogen Company Secures $4.7M in Series A Round - Green Car Congress - Jan.16.08
      
    • Developing green fuel - Cardiff Univ. - Aug.24.07 [H2 storage in organic polymer]
    • Nissan Develops New Catalyst Material with Half the Precious Metal Components - Green Car Congress - July.29.07
    • Novel sugar-to-hydrogen technology promises transportation fuel independence - Virginia Tech News - May.23.07
    • Hydrogen Breakthrough Could Open The Road To Carbon-free Cars - ScienceDaily - May.25.07
    • New Process Generates Hydrogen From Aluminum Alloy To Run Engines, Fuel Cells - Science Daily - May.20.07
    • Hydrogen Storage: UNBF Researchers Achieve Technology Breakthrough - News@UNB - Mar.7.07
      
    • Invention Could Solve 'Bottleneck' In Developing Pollution-free Cars - ScienceDaily - Dec.7.06
    • Quantum Delivers New Hydrogen Storage Tanks to Fuel-Cell Bus Manufacturer - Green Car Congress - Aug.15.06
    • Hydrogen on the Cheap - Popular Mechanics - June.06
    • SHEC Raising C$10M in Private Placement for Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen Production Facility - Green Car Congress - May.8.06
    • Sandia Labs Researcher Rich Diver Invents New Way to Make Hydrogen for Fuel - Fuel Cell Works - Feb.14.06
    • The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel - IsraCast - Oct.24.05 (metal+water=oxide + H2 + hot water)
    • Fuel-Cell Tanks Buck Convention - Wired News - May.16.05
    • Toyota Develops High-pressure Hydrogen Tanks for Fuel Cell Vehicles - Toyota - May.16.05
    • Microbial fuel cell: High yield hydrogen source and wastewater cleaner - Penn State - Apr.22.05
    • Hydrogen Production Method Could Bolster Fuel Supplies - NY Times - Nov.28.04
    • Sun and hydrogen 'to fuel future' - BBC - Aug.12.04
    • A future for glass in a hydrogen economy? Researchers envision tiny spheres storing the gas in cars - MSNBC - July.7.04
    • Hydrogen Gets Boost From Ethanol - Wired - Feb.27.04
    • Crystals Could End Up as the Fuel Tank of the Future - NY Times - Feb.17.04
    • Scientists develop new hydrogen reactor - CNN.com - Feb. 13, 2004
    • New catalyst paves way for cheap, renewable hydrogen - Eurekalert - June.26.03
    • Algae: Power Plant of the Future? - Wired - Aug.19.02
• Fuel Cell Cars
  • FCHV - Toyota
    • Toyota: Environmental Technology
    • Toyota develops new fuel cell hybrid - PhysOrg - June.6.08
    • Toyota Delivers First Two, Market-Ready Zero-Emission-Certified Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles - Toyota PR - Dec.2.02
    • Toyota Hopes to Be First to Market Fuel Cell Auto, Expects to Launch FCHV-4 Next Year - EyeforFuelCells - Feb.25.02
  • FCX - Honda
    • On the Brink of the Fuel Cell Future? - WorldChanging - Feb.8.06
      
      • Hydrogen-Powered Honda FCX to go Into Production - Cars - Blogs.ca - Feb.6.06
    • Honda's More Powerful Fuel Cell Concept with Home Hydrogen Refueling - Green Car Congress - Oct.19.05
    • Japan's Honda Test Drives Fuel Cell Car on Public Roads - Fuel Cell Today - Apr.5.02American Honda Unveils Fuel Cell Car at L.A. Auto Show - Autoweb - Jan.7.02
    • The Race is on, Honda Moves to Lead in U.S. Fuel Cell Auto Market - EyeforFuelCells - Mar.4.02
    • Honda Introduces New Fuel Cell-Powered Vehicle, FCX-V4 - Honda PR - Sep.4.01 (with photos & specs)
  • GM Hydrogen vehicles
    • More Details on GMs Sequel H2 Vehicle - Green Car Congress - Jan.12.05
      
    • GM Announces Drivable Version of Sequel Fuel-Cell Concept; Says Ramping Up Major Hybrid Assault - Green Car Congress - Aug.11.06
    • Hy-wire Concept - AutoIntell.net
    • GM Envisions Radical New Future Powered by Fuel-Cell Technology - Detroit Free Press/Fuel Cell Today - Dec.5.02
    • GM's Hy-Wire Brakes Driving Mold - Wired - Sept.26.02
    • Designing AUTOnomy - Scientific American - Sept.16.02
  • Morgan LifeCar
    • Green sports car set for launch - BBC - Mar.3.08
  • Nissan FCV
    • Fuel Cell Vehicle Unveiled by Nissan; X-Trail FCV powered by UTC Fuel Cells Plant - Fuel Cell Today - Dec.10.02
  • Riversimple
    • New hydrogen-powered city car takes to the road - New Scientist - June.15.09
      
  • Anuvu - fuel cell powered pickup truck and other vehicles
  • Formula Zero Racing for the Future
    
    • Formula Zero - Fuel Cell Go-Kart Series - gizmag Article - Aug.20.06
  • Articles
    • Another World Is Here: Fuel Cell Benz - WorldChanging - Mar.3.05
      
    • FreedomCAR: Will It Drive? - Technology Review - Jan.28.02
    • Feds Accelerate Fuel-Cell Cars - Wired - Jan.9.02
    • Hydrogen Car Fire Surprise - EV World - Jan.18.03
• Hydrogen vehicles (combustion, not fuel cells)
  • AQWON® - scooter
  • BMW to Display Liquid Hydrogen Storage System and Bi-fuel Engine at NHA 2006 - Green Car Congress - Mar.12.06
• Articles:
  • Carbon catalyst could herald cut-price fuel cells - New Scientist - Feb.6.09
  • Closed System Opens Way for More Practical Fuel Cell -- Using the water produced by a fuel cell to regulate the flow of hydrogen, researchers have made it act like an internal combustion engine--the more hydrogen you put in, the more power you get out - Scientific American - Jan.07
  • For fuel cell innovation, the tank is half full - Cnet News.com - May.13.05
  • First membrane-free alkaline fuel cell built - New Scientist - Mar.22.05
  • Fuel Cells in the Deep Freeze - NY Times - Dec.12.04
  • How It Works: Giving the Battery, That Stalwart, a Fuel-Cell Challenge - NY Times - Aug.26.04
  • Fuel cells turn to alcohol - PhysicsWeb - Feb.12.04
    
  • Patents: A Sweet Way to Fuel Cars - NY Times - June.21.04
  • New Honda Fuel Cell Stack Operates at Low Temperatures: Breakthrough Technology to be Tested in FCX on Public Roads - Honda - Oct.10.03
  • Analysis of stratospheric air resolves enigma of hydrogen balance in Earth's atmosphere - SpaceRef - Aug.29.03
  • Hydrogen Is No Gas, Yet - Wired - June.23.03
  • Rocks in your Gas Tank: Experiments onboard the International Space Station could accelerate the drive toward a hydrogen-based economy. - Science@NASA - Apr.17.03
  • Cool Fuel Cells - Science@NASA - Mar.18.03
  • EBARA BALLARD Unveils 1 kW Stationary Fuel Cell Generator with Total Efficiency of 92% - EyeForFuelCells - Jan.30.03
  • Businesses may rev up on sitting fuel cells - East Bay Business Times - Jan.24.03
  • Solid Oxide Fuel Cells can be as cheap as gas turbines, say researchers - Fuel Cell Today - Dec.20.02
  • Neutralizing Diesel's Idle Threat [with Fuel Cells] - Wired - Oct.10.02
  • New clean, quiet cars guzzle hydrogen - CNN.com - Oct.9.02
  • Fuel cell approved for use on planes - CNet - Oct.4.02
  • Fuel cells march toward the mainstream - EE Times - Aug.9.02
  • Fuel cell car gets environmental OKs / Honda expects it on road by year's end - SFGate - July.25.02
  • GM's Billion-Dollar Bet - Wired - July.02 - "The hydrogen car has been a long time coming. GM is betting $1 billion that the end of internal combustion is near."
  • GM to Test Fuel Cell Car on Japan Public Roads by End 2002; Mass Production to Start in 2008 - Fuel Cell Today - July.12.02
  • Fuel Cell Hold-up : Government's go-slow approach promises to keep the technology on the shelf - SF Gate - June.20.02
  • Fuel Cell Car Coasts Across U.S. - Wired - June.5.02
  • Power play over fuel cells - Economist.com - Mar.14.02
  • Florida Universities Solving NASA's Hydrogen Problem - Unisci - Apr.19.02
  • Japanese firms see future in fuel cells - CNET.com - Dec.28.01
  • NEC, Sony see promise in fuel cells - CNET.com - Sept.4.01
  • Salon Technology | Goodbye battery, hello fuel cell - Jan.31.00
  • Hydrogen aircraft research plans - Flug Revue - Sep.98:
• Lithium Batteries
  • Lithium-ion powered vehicles
  • Acumetrics - Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, Tubular SOFC, Emergency Power Generator
    • Breakthrough Fuel Cell, Twice as Efficient as Generators - EcoGeek - June.3.07
  • Altair Nanotechnologies
    • Altairnano Completes $750,000 Battery Pack Shipment For Phoenix Motorcars: Quality and performance of battery packs exceed expectations - Altair Nanotechnologies - Dec.28.06
    • Altair Batteries to be used in EV - The Energy Blog - July.5.06
    • Altair Nanotechnologies Receives Initial Order for Electric Car Batteries; Teams with Phoenix Motorcars and Boshart Engineering to Test EVs (updated) - Green Car Congress - July.5.06
      
    • Altair Nanotechnologies Receives Initial Order for Electric Car Batteries; Teams with Phoenix Motorcars and Boshart Engineering to Test EVs - Altair - July.5.06
    • Altair Nanotechnologies Achieves Milestone in Development of Nano-Powered Batteries for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles - Altair - May.23.06
    • Altair Nanotechnologies Begins Manufacturing Of High-Power Lithium Ion Battery Cells And Announces New Test Results - Altair Nanotechnologies - Feb.1.06
    • Altair Nanotechnologies Lithium Ion Battery Cells Exceed HEV Power Requirements Of U.S. Freedomcar - Altairnano - Jan.18.06
    • Charge a battery in just six minutes - New Scientist - Mar.7.05
    • Altair Nanotechnologies Achieves Breakthrough In Battery Materials:Altair's Developments Pave the Way for a New Generation of Rechargeable Batteries - Altair - Feb.10.05
  • A123 Systems
    • A123Systems Prismatic Cell Lineup: Up to 5,300 W/kg in High Power Cell, 20 Ah Cell for PHEVs - Green Car Congress - May.19.09
    • A New Battery Takes Off in a Race to Electric Cars - New York Times - Mar.11.07
    • High-flying with A123: Electric Car | Remote-Control Helicopter | Advanced Battery - EV World - Jan.16.07
      
    • Super Battery: The M1 stomps all over today's cells. - Wired - Mar.06
  • Amprius
    • More Energy in Batteries - Technology Review - Nov.6.09
  • Electrovaya - high density Lithium battery
    • Electrovaya to Use New MN Series Li-Ion Battery Technology in NYSERDA Plug-In Hybrid Conversion Contract - Green Car Congress - Jan.29.07
    • Electrovaya Introduces New Lithium-Ion Battery Technology with Higher Energy Density - Green Car Congress - Jan.18.07
  • Ener1 (previously EnerDel)
    • U.S. battery maker takes on Asian giants - CNN Money - June. 15.09
    • EnerDel to Market Automotive Li-Ion Battery by End of 2008 - Green Car Congress - Dec.12.07
  • E-One Moli Energy
  • Lithion Batteries - used on Mars rovers
  • Lithium Technology
    
    • Lithium Technology Corporation Introduces New High-Energy Lithium-Ion Battery Line; Targeting EVs and Commercial Vehicles - Green Car Congress - Feb.25.08.
    • LTC Developing 12 kWh Li-ion Battery for Plug-in Hybrids; Larger Battery for Submarines - Green Car Congress - Aug.15.06
  • LithiumTech.com
  • NanoEner Technologies
    • Ener1 Nanotech Unit Prepares to Commercialize Revolutionary Battery Electrodes - Chemie.DE - Feb.16.05
      
    • Ener1 Nanotech Unit Prepares to Commercialize Revolutionary Battery Electrodes: Will produce high discharge rate lithium-ion battery electrodes for hybrid electric vehicles, other uses - Ener1- Feb.14.05
  • Nexeon "Unique silicon anode technology for the next generation of li-ion batteries"
    • Startup ready to license silicon anode for battery - EETimes.com - Dec.1.09
  • Seeo
    • Better Lithium-ion Batteries: A startup says its solid polymer electrolytes will mean cheaper, more-reliable batteries. - Technology Review - Mar.27.09
  • Ultralife Battery
  • Valence - Spahion Technology - "Lithium-ion technology utilizes cobalt-oxide cathode material, Saphion® technology incorporates a phosphate based cathode material." Large cells.
    • Valence Ships New Lithium-Ion Batteries as Promised - Green Car Congress - June.2.06
  • Air-fueled Li-ion
    • PolyPlus Battery Co.
    • A Solid-State, Rechargeable, Long Cycle Life Lithium--Air Battery, Kumar et al - J.Electrochem Soc. - Nov.13.09
    • Nickel Lithium Batteries from Japan and Lithium Air Batteries from IBM - Next Big Future - Oct.6.09
    • Lithium-Air Batteries Seen as Hope for Electric Cars - NYTimes.com -Sept.15.09
    • IBM Almaden Lab Exploring Lithium-Air Batteries for Next-Generation Energy Storage - Green Car Congress - June.24.09
    • IBM Invests in Battery Research - Technology Review - June.11.09
    • Breathing batteries could store 10 times the energy -New Scientist - May.19.09
    • Air-fuelled Battery Could Last Up to 10 Times Longer - EPSRC (UK) - May.18.09
  • Lithium-Nickel
    • Nickel Lithium Batteries from Japan and Lithium Air Batteries from IBM - Next Big Future - Oct.6.09
  • Lithium Sulfer
    • Sion Power
      • BASF and Sion Power Collaborate on New Battery Technology - Sion Power - May.14.09 (pdf)
      • SION Power Lithium Sulfur Batteries Soar to New Heights - Sion Power (pdf)
    • Revisiting Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Advances could at last make the high-energy batteries practical. - Technology Review - May.22.09
  • Toshiba Li-ion
    • Toshiba unveils new battery prototype - PC Authority - Oct.2.08
    • Toshiba Launches New Li-Ion Battery Business; Plans to Enter Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Market - Green Car Congress - Dec.11.07
    • Lithium ion battery recharges in one minute - EETimes.com - Mar.29.05
      
    • Toshiba's Fast-Charging, Long Life Li-Ion Battery - Green Car Congress - Apr.5.05
    • Toshiba's New Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery Recharges in Only One Minute: New battery offers unsurpassed recharge performance and high energy density - Toshiba - Mar.29.05
  • Articles:
    • Researchers Develop Electrode Materials for High-Capacity Li-S Battery Cells - Green Car Congress - May.18.09
    • Hitachi develops automotive lithium-ion battery having the world's highest output; sampling set to start in the fall - Hitachi - May.19.09
    • Worldwide race to make better batteries: The US is a late entry, but new domestic projects are revving to go - csmonitor.com - Jan.22.09
    • Lithium Batteries On The Way For Hybrids: In just one year, the whens and wheres of lithium battery packs for hybrid and electric cars have come into much sharper focus - IEEE Spectrum - June.08
    • Stanford's nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones - Stanford Univ.
    • Prospects for Lithium-ion Batteries in Automotive Applications from AABC Week - Green Car Congress - May.17.07
      
    • GMs View on Battery Technologies for Hybrids, Plug-Ins and E-Flex - Green Car Congress - Mar.13.07
    • A Bit About Batteries - the Tesla blog - Nov.30.06 - mini-tutorial on the Li-Ion batteries in the Testla sports car
    • The Lithium Economy: Why hydrogen might not power future vehicles and lithium ion batteries might. - Technology Review - Nov.22.05
    • Battery Research: Too Little, Too Late? - Computerworld - Jan.10.05
    • Nanosized lithium to pack more into rechargeable batteries - EE Times - Apr.5.02
• NiMH Batteries
  • Nilar
  • Ovonics
  • Rayovac Rechargables
• Zinc-Air/Metal Air Batteries:
  • Zinc-air battery - Wikipedia
  • AER Research and tutorial
  • BAT International
  • Fluidic Energy
    • Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough: A government-funded start-up claims it can make ionic liquid energy storage feasible - Technology Review - Nov.5.09
  • REVOLT Technology - rechargeable zinc-air battery technology
    • ReVolt aims to jumpstart electric car industry - Daily Journal of Commerce - May.5.10
    • High-Energy Batteries Coming to Market - Technology Review - Oct.28.09
      
  • Power Air Corp
    
• Sodium-Sulfur Battery
  • Ceramatec - Advanced Batteries
    • New battery could change world, one house at a time - Daily Herald - Apr.4.09
      
  • New battery packs powerful punch - USAToday.com - July.6.07
• Advanced Lead-Acid Batteries
  • Lead-Acid Battery Developers Targeting Hybrid Applications - Green ar Congress - May.30.07
  • Firefly Energy - spinoff from Caterpillar uses innovative materials for Lead-Acid
    • Firefly Energy Awarded Patent on New Foam Lead-Acid Technology; Targeting Hybrids and Plug-ins - Green Car Congress - Jan.18.06
    • Renaissance for Lead-Acid - Batteries & Energy - Spring 2005
    • Firefly battery technology earns powerful backing - Chicago Sun-Times - June.22.05
  • Axion Power
    • Axion Picks Up Another Patent for its Lead-Acid Battery - Supercapacitor Hybrid Cell - Green Car Congress - Apr.11.06
  • Hawker Energy Products - lead batteries
  • UltraBattery
    • UltraBattery: no ordinary battery - CSIRO - Australia
    • A Cheaper Battery for Hybrid Cars : New lead-acid batteries could achieve high performance - Technology Review - Jan.24.08
    • CSIRO UltraBattery Passes 100,000 Miles in HEV Track Testing - Green Car Congress - Jan.17.08
• Nuclear material batteries:
  • A 25-Year Battery: Long-lived nuclear batteries powered by hydrogen isotopes are in testing for military applications - Technology Review - Nov.17.09
  • Tiny Atomic Battery Could Run For Decades Unattended - ScienceDaily Magazine - Oct.18.02
• Other Batteries & Battery Related Technology
  • CompareEvBatteries
  • Liquid/Flow Batteries:
    • Flow Batteries For Fast Electric Car Charging - Potential Energy/Technology Review - Oct.15.09
    • Liquid Battery - Technology Review - March/April.09
  • Plastic Battery at Johns Hopkins Univ.
  • Sion Power Corporation
    • Sion Power Unveils Li-S : Technology - MobileMag - May.13.04
      
  • ZPower - Silver-Zinc, Rechargeable Batteries
    • Will lithium ion get replaced? Longer lasting, recyclable batteries due in laptops this summer - VentureBeat - Apr.1.08
  • Posicharge - sophisticated fast charging system
  • Microbatteries buitl with viruses
    • MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries: Microbatteries could power tomorrow's miniature devices - MIT News - Aug.20.08
      
  • Spin Battery: Physicist Develops Battery Using New Source Of Energy - ScienceDaily - Mar.12.09
  • Why Intel Could Rock the Electric Vehicle Battery Market - Gigaom - Dec.16.08
• Battery Reviews:
• Ultimate Specific Energy for Batteries, Ultracapacitors - Next Big Future - June.11.09
• Batteries included - Sustainable Industries - Jan.4.08
• Next-Gen Car Batteries Promise Longer Life, More Power - Wired - July.5.07
• Power Shift: The battery, once considered low tech, is a new focus of innovation and investment as users demand more - like power that lasts all day - RED HERRING - May.16.05
• Carbon Pillars Power Microbatteries - Spectrum - Oct.9.04
• Technick.net - Batteries in a Portable World Handbook - huge set of pages on everything you could possibly want to know about rechargeable batteries of all types.
• Flywheels:
  • AFS Trinity Power
  • Beacon Power - Energy Storage Systems
  • Flybrid Systems
  • LaunchPoint
    • Power Ring maglev flywheel
  • Optimal Energy Systems - fixed power systems and also for satellites
  • Unique Mobility
  • Flywheel Energy Storage - Wikipedia
  • Articles:
    • DoE Invests In First Flywheel Power-Storage Plant - Popular Science - Aug.9.10
    • Getting All Revved Up - American Scientist - Jan/Feb 2007 issue
    • Researchers Focus on Spacecraft Power Storage: The Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate believes their experiment will demonstrate the innovative technology of combined attitude control and energy storage on a satellite - U.S. Department of Defense - Apr.28.06
    • Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug-In Rule - NY Times - Apr.2.05
    • From Child's Toy to ISS: Flywheels Hold the Power Flywheel energy storage systems are under development to provide a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to electrochemical batteries in spacecraft, as well as in cars and other everyday applications - NASA - May.03
    • Re-Energizer - Wired May.00
• Ultracapacitors:
  • Maxwell Technologies: Ultracapacitors
  • Powercache: Ultracapacitors
  • UltraCapacitors.org
  • IEEE Spectrum: The Charge of the Ultra - Capacitors
  • EAMEX - high energy density supercapacitor
  • Nesscap
  • Ultracaps Could Boost Hybrid Efficiency: Recent studies point to the potential of ultracapacitors to augment conventional batteries - Technology Review - Aug.20.09
  • EnerG2
    • EnerG2 Kicks Off Fed-Backed Factory: First Ultracaps, Then the World - Earth2Tech.com - Aug.10.10
    • EnerG2 emerges from stealth with ultracapacitor material - Cleantech Group - Nov.19.08
      
  • Graphene Energy
    
    • Graphene Energy Inc., an Austin-Based Startup, Raises Seed Capital to Commercialize Graphene-Based Ultracapacitor Technology - Jan.12.09
  • Reticle Carbon
    • supercapacitors - Reticle Carbon
  • Quantum battery - nano sized capacitor arrays
    • A Quantum Leap in Battery Design: Digital quantum batteries could exceed lithium-ion performance by orders of magnitude - Technology Review - Dec.21.09
    • Digital Quantum Batteries Theoretically Could Have Ten Times Energy Density of Lithium Ion Battery - Next Big Future- Dec.21.09
  • EEStor
    • EEstor - Wikipedia
    • EEStor - independent blog
    • TheEEStory.com
    • EEStor FAQ
    • Google News search on "EEStor"
    • LightEV - 2 and 3 wheeled vehicles. Agreement with EEStor
    • ZENN Cars - agreement with EEStor (Articles)
    • Patents:
      • New EEStor Patent - TheEEStory.com - Dec.17.08
        • Patent US 07466536B1 - Weir et al. - EEStor EESU - Dec.16.08 (pdf)
      • Lockheed Martin Patent Application Includes EEStor EESU - bariumtitanate.blogspot.com - Dec.28.08
    • Q&A with Dick Weir, CEO of Eestor Inc. - Yahoo! Video - July.21.09
      • The audio was removed at EEStor's request but the info is available here:
        • Transcript - TheEEStory.com
        • EEStor Founder Dick Weir Confirms ESUs Presently Being Built, and Once Delivered to ZENN by the Fourth Quarter, - AllCarsElectric.com - July.24.09
    • The Peak Oil Crisis:A Disruptive Technology - Falls Church News-Press - Aug.12.09
    • Who Killed the Electric Gas Tank? - The Oil Drum - July.15.09
    • ZENN Motor Company Confirms EEStor's Third-Party Certified Permittivity Results and Announces Intention to Exercise Additional EEStor Investment Option - ZENN - May.21.09
    • EEStor, Inc. Announces Relative Permittivity Certification of Their Composition Modified Barium-Titanate Powders - EEStor/PRNewswire - Apr.22.09
    • Ultracapacitors: is the energy revolution about to arrive? - designing better futures - Dec.27.08 - new ways of handling electrical power become feasible with EESU
    • EEStor Not Delivering - Chris Gammell's Analog Life - Nov.11.08 - includes capacitor tutorial + list of challenges for an EEStor ultracapacitor
    • Better Batteries Charge Up: A startup reports progress on a battery that stores more energy than lithium-ion ones - Technology Review - Aug.5.08
    • EEStor's Weir on ultracapacitor milestone - Cleantech Group - July.30.08
    • A Break Through For Electric Cars? - Examiner.com - June.24.08 - tutorial info
      • EEStor Advanced Capacitor Best Use In A Hybrid Car - Examiner - June.25.08
    • EEStor Technology: The End of Batteries? - Natural News - Apr.20.08
    • Ultracapacitors: the future of electric cars or the 'cold fusion' of autovation? ; ZENN Motors says its electric car will cruise for 250 miles on a single five-minute charge. Skeptics cry shenanigans. - csmonitor.com - Apr.16.08
    • Zenn, EEStor detail plans for highway-capable electric car - CNET News.com - Apr.1.08
      
    • Lockheed Martin Signs Agreement with EEStor - GM-VOLT.com - Jan.10.08 - interview with a LM manager about the EEStor technology.
    • A New Deal for EEStor: A delayed battery technology may indeed be on the way. - Technology Review - Jan.22.08
    • EESTor signs deal with Lockheed - CNET News blog - Jan.10.08
    • Lockheed Martin Signs Agreement with EESTOR, Inc., for Energy Storage Solutions - Lockheed-Martin - Jan.9.08
    • EEStor, Inc. is Pleased to Announce that Morton L. Topfer has Joined the EEStor, Inc. Board of Directors - Reuters - Jan.9.08
    • Discover Brilliant Q&A: Bill Williams of Zenn Motors - Grist - Oct.4.07
    • Is EEStor delaying its power system for cars? - CNET News.com
    • Reclusive Green-tech Startup May Spell the End of the Battery - Foz News - Sept.1.07
    • ZENN Pitches the Future: Electric Car - EV World - Feb.22.07
    • New age battery gains power - ISA - Jan.25.07
    • Battery Breakthrough? - Technology Review - Jan.22.07
    • EEStor Announces Two Key Production Milestones; 15 kWh EESU on Track for 2007 - Green Car Congress - Jan.17.07
    • Gentlemen, stop your engines: EEStor's new automotive power source could eliminate the need for the combustion engine - and for oil. - CNN/Business 2.0 - Sept.18.06
    • EEStor has open house, shows off EV prototypes - Clean Break - Mar.29.06
    • What's in store for EEStor? - Clean Break - Jan.19.06
      
    • Kleiner Perkins' Latest Energy Investment - Business Week - Sept.3.05
      
  • JEOL:
    • Premlis® Supercapacitors - JEOL Ltd.- Oct.24.08
  • eP0d Solar
    • Hybrid Battery / Super Capacitor (in development) - ePod Inc.
    • Canadian Firm Develops Fast-Charge Ultra-Cap 'Battery' - EVWorld
  • Light for Life™ UC3.400™ - ultra capacitor powered flashlight
    • Light For Life Flashlight - The Future of Things - Dec.10.08
  • Articles
    • Sinautec Ultracapacitor Bus Is Cheaper and Greener Than Diesel -Triple Pundit - Oct.22.09
    • Ultracapacitors look to fit into energy storage - CNET News - Sept.29.09
    • New Nanoscale supercapacitor can store 100 times more energy - gizmag - Mar.23.09
    • FDK To Begin Mass Production of High-Capacity Li-Ion Capacitors; Automotive and Renewable Energy Applications - Green Car Congress - Jan.5.09
    • Flexible, Adaptable Polymer Energy Storage - EVWorld Newswire - Aug.21.08
    • Electricity storage - Ne plus ultra : A new version of an old idea is threatening the battery industry - Economist.com - Feb.1.08
    • High-performance Energy Storage - ScienceDaily - July.2.07
      
    • Brown Engineers Build a Better Battery With Plastic - Brown Univ. - Sept.13.06
    • New Nanocrystalline Material for Next-Generation Supercapacitors - Green Car Congress - July.11.06
      
    • Super Battery - ScienCentral News - June.8.06
    • Nano World Carbon nanotube capacitors: Carbon nanotubes could help release and hold electrical energy, for potential use in everything from microchips to hybrid cars, experts told UPI's Nano World - Physorg.com - Feb.3.06
    • MIT Carbon Nanotube Ultracapacitor Could Approach Storage Density of Batteries - Green Car Congress - Feb.8.06
  • Capacitor tutorials:
    • The Charge of the Ultra - Capacitors - IEEE Spectrum - Nov.07 - good review of ultracapacitors
    • CapSite 2006 Introduction To Capacitors
    • An Introduction To Capacitors at Bucknell Univ
      
• Compressed Air
  • www.engineair.com.au
  • Zero Pollution Motors Inc. - compressed air powered car
  • MDI - The air car
    • How it works - The World's Cleanest Car
    • Deflating the Air Car: Green cars could run on compressed air instead of batteries. But don't rely on the new AirPod minicars to prove it - IEEE Spectrum - Nov.09 issue
    • Five-seat concept car runs on air - BBC - Feb.13.08
    • The Air Car - zero pollution and very low running costs - gizmag - Mar.07
      
  • PHEV (Peumatic Hybrid Electric Vehicle) - ENERGINE
    • Car that runs on compressed air - CNN.com - Mar.30.05
      
  • Motor Development International, Guy Negre's Air-Powered Car
  • Howstuffworks "How Air-Powered Cars Will Work"
  • Compressed Air Vehicles... - SunWater
  • Articles:
    • On the road with the Airpod air-powered car: An air-powered car? Sounds almost too good to be true - so a sceptical Alex Benady took one for a test drive - The Guardian - May.15.09
    • Compressed-Air Cars Planned for Airport Test, US Launch - Popular Science - Nov.4.08
    • Air-powered Autos: Zero-emission driving may be more than hot air - Technology Review - Sept.19.02
• Compressed solids:
  • 'Never-before-seen material' can store vast amounts of energy - Gizmag - July.4.10
  • WSU Researchers Use Super-high Pressures to Create Super Battery - Washington State. Univ. - July.2.10
  • Two- and three-dimensional extended solids and metallization of compressed XeF2 - Nature Chemistry - July.4.10
• Steam Engines
  • Cyclone Technologies, The Cyclone External Combustion Engine invented by Harry Schoell
    
    • Updating the Steam Engine: the Cyclone - Green Car Congress - Apr.4.06
  • Steam engines could be eco hope - BBC - Dec.28.04
• Natural Gas/Methane/Ethanol
  • From farm waste to fuel tanks: Record-breaking methane storage system derived from corncobs may encourage mass-market natural gas automobiles - EurekAlert - Feb.20.07
  • Moller Delivers Better than SULEV with Ethanol-Fueled Rotary Engine - Green Car Congress - Aug.10.06
  • Gas Goes Solid : Japanese researchers may have found the secret to exploiting the world's untapped natural gas reserves. - Technology Review - Apr.11.03
• Hydraulic Hybrids:
  • SHEP - Stored Hydraulic Energy Propulsion
  • Permo-drive
    • Hybrid hydraulics technology eases the fuel burden - ferret.com.au - Oct.21.06
      
  • Eaton Hyrbids
  • EPA turns innovator with hydraulic hybrids - The Detroit News - Dec.18.05
  • EPA Displays the First Advanced Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicle - Energy Security - Mar.31.04
    
  • EPA Announces Partnership to Demonstrate World's First Full Hydraulic Hybrid Urban Delivery Vehicle - OTAQ - EPA - Feb.05
    
  • Test Set on Transmission That Could Save Fuel - NY Times - Feb.10.05
    
  • EPA Displays the First Advanced Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicle - IAGS - Mar.31.04
    
  • Eaton and Peterbilt to Produce Hydraulic Hybrids - Green Car Congress - Oct.20.04
    
• Large scale energy storage
  • FAQ: Energy Storage for the Smart Grid - Reuters - May.13.09
  • Air Storage Is Explored for Energy - NYTimes - Aug.25.08
  • Energy storage coming to a power grid near you - CNET News - June.27.08
• Other power & energy systems:
  • Future Energies - news on all kinds of new energy technologies
  • CryoCar - Liquid nitrogen power
  • Encore Clean Energy - waste heat utilization
  • Microturbines
    • Microturbine Power Generators from Capstone Turbine Corporation
  • Varmaraf -Leader in thermoelectric generator development
    • Iceland invents energy-from-water machine - BBC - Oct.23.02
  • Improved internal combustion engine designs
    • Concept: Sleeve Axial Diesel Engine - Green Car Congress - Jan.29.07
    • New Toroidal Internal Combustion Engine Promises 20:1 Power-to-Weight Ratio - Green Car Congress - Apr.18.06
    • www.quasiturbine.com
      • Howstuffworks "How Quasiturbine Engines Work"
    • Rotoblock
    • Rotapower - The engine of the future
      
      • Rotapower engine 'would clean polluted air' - Wired UK - Apr.29.09
    • Transonic Combustion - "Ultra-high Efficiency Fuel Injection Systems"
      • AutoblogGreen Q&A with Transonic Combustion: Can supercritical fluids give a 30% mpg boost? - Autoblog Green - Aug.26.10
    • REGI US and Reg Technologies Move Ahead with RadMax Rotary Engine - Green Car Congress - Oct.17.06
    • Device Burns Fuel With Almost Zero Emissions - ScienceDaily - June.25.06
• Hobby Turbines
  • Turbine Corner
  • Garage Jet
  • Pulse Jet Engine - Bruce Simpson
  • The jet powered beer cooler
    • Turbocharger Gas Turbine
  • JETWEBB-Jet Powered Drag Racing
  • Introduction to Jet Engines
  • Gasturbines -Baumgart

Electric Cars and Electric Bikes

• Electric A!D - "EV news for the enthusiast by the enthusiasts"
• ElectricCars.com
• EV World
• Electric Auto Association
• Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas
• AC Propulsion
  • The World's Fastest Electric Car - Forbes.com - Oct.21.03
  • Lots of Zoom, With Batteries - NY Times - Sept.19.03 - 0-60mph in 3.7s, 300mile range.
• Aptera - offered in either hybrid or all electric mode.
  • Aptera Founders Ousted in Boardroom Showdown - Wired - Nov.16.09
  • We Drive the Aptera, and It's a Real Car - Wired.com - Apr.21.09
  • Test Ride: Even in New York, the Aptera Stops Traffic - Wired - Mar.24.09
  • Aptera Moves One Step Closer to Production of Its Ultra-Efficient Typ-1 Vehicle: Aptera Motors raises more than $24 million in Series C funding from Idealab, Google, Inc. and others - MarketWatch - July.29.08
• Azure Dynamics (formerly Solectra)
• American Electric Vehicle
  • Will Ferndale electric car maker click or short circuit? - Business Review - Dec.14.06
• BAT International
• Bluebird Electric Project
• BMW:
  • AC Propulsion System Powers the MINI E - Green Car Congress - Nov.26.08
  • BMW's New Mini: It's Electric! An electric version of the popular gas-powered Mini Cooper was unveiled at the Los Angeles auto show. 500 "lockable garage" owners get the chance to test drive the green machine - Business Week - Nov.19.08
    • Video
  • BMW Group Electric MINI to Debut at LA Auto Show in November - Green Car Congress - Oct.17.08
  • 2009 Mini Cooper Electric Vehicle - Spied - Car and Driver Blog - Oct.15.08
• BYD Auto - China
  • BYD Launches China's First Electric Car For Nearly $22,000 - AHN - Dec.16.08
  • BYD Introduces Electric E6 Crossover at Beijing Auto Show - Green Car Congress - Apr.21.08
• Chrysler
  • Chrysler Unveils Production-Intent Electric Drive Technology; Three Prototypes, One to Be Produced in 2010 - Green Car Congress - Sept.23.08
• Commuter Cars - Tango
  • Stopping Traffic: Can the car that Rick and Bryan built get traction - The Seattle Times - July.27.03
  • A new breed of high performance electric car - gizmag - 2004
• Detroit Electric
• Eliica - high performance electric sports car + 200 mi range on 1 hour charge.
  • ELLICA - Electric A!D - Mar.09
  • YouTube - Eliica - 370 km/h electric car : DigInfo - 2007
  • Eight-Wheeled, 230 MPH Electric Car to Spawn a Bus - Popular Science - Aug.14.09
  • Electric shock: it's faster than a Porsche 911 - Drive.com.au - Nov.12.04
• GM
  • GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Concept Site - independent site
  • Inside the Chevy Volt's Battery - Popular Science - Oct.08
  • Chevy Volt - GM
    • Chevrolet VoltAge - Get Plugged In
    • Is GM's Volt Ready to Roll? : The production design is ready, but the electric vehicle's battery needs work - Technology Review - Sept.18.08
    • Bob Lutz Drives the Volt, Calls It 'Electrifying'- Wired - June.7.08
    • Chevy Volt Redefines EV - Autopia - Jan.6.07
    • In Pix: GM's Electric Car:
• Gravitron
• Green Vehicles
  
  • 80-mph electric car to go on sale this summer in the US - PhysOrg/Green Vehicles - May.8.08
• Li-ion Motors - Electric cars, motorcycles & electric mopeds
  
• Lightning Car Company
  • UK Company Introduces Electric Sportscar with Altairnano Battery Pack; More Models Planned - Green Car Congress - June.13.07
• Luxury Electric - Luxury, Midrange and Economy All-Electric Cars
  • Luxury Electric announces full size electric car trans-continental trip at DNC - Auto Blog Green - Aug.27.08
• Maya 100
  • Electrovaya
  • Maya 100 EV to Sell in Norway - Green Car Congress - May.19.05
    
• Micro-Vett SPA electric vehicles
• Mitsubishi
  • Mitsubishi Motors to drive forward development of next-generation EVs - Mitsubishi - May.11.05
• Myers Motors - Sparrow EV
• Nissan LEAF Electric Car
  • Report: Nissan Leaf battery pack costs only £6,000 ($9,000) or $375/kWh! - Autoblog Green - May.5.10
  • Nissan Leaf Electric Vehicle Is Surprisingly Affordable - Wired.com - Mar.30.10
• Obvio - lithium powered small car - 200+ mile range
  • OBVIO! to Introduce Electric Cars to North America- Green Car Congress - July.20.06
• Phoenix Motorcars
  • Phoenix Evaluating UQM Drive System for Electric Truck - Green Car Congress - July.6.06
  • Altair Nanotechnologies Receives Initial Order for Electric Car Batteries; Teams with Phoenix Motorcars and Boshart Engineering to Test EVs (updated) - Green Car Congress - July.5.06
• Pininfarina/Bolloré BlueCar, also called B0 (B Zero)
  • BlueCar at Pininfarina
  • Pininfarina and Bolloré Taking Orders for B0 Electric Car - TreeHugger - Mar.5.09
• PML Design & Manufacture Electric Motors
  
  • Electric Mini: 0-60 in 4 Seconds: It Has Motors In Its Wheels - Treehugger - Aug.30.06
  • PML Builds 640hp Electric MINI - worldcarfans.com - July.24.06
• REVA - India's First Electric Car...
• Shelby Supercars
  • Ultimate Aero EV: SSC Plans To Build World's Fastest Electric Production Car - Jalopnik - Jan.21.09
  • Introducing the World's Fastest EV - Wired - July.17.08
• Tazzari Zero
• Tesla Motors
  • The Tesla blog
  • Model S
    • Tesla unveils world's first mass-produced, highway-capable EV: Model S sedan has anticipated base price of $49,900, up to 300-mile range and 45-minute QuickCharge capability - Tesla Motors - Mar.26.09
    • Tesla Model S Electric Sedan Breaks Cover - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com - Mar.26.09
  • Tesla Sport Roadster | Wired.com Product Reviews - Mar.19.10
  • Feds Lend Tesla $465 Milllion to Build Model S - Wired.com - June.23.09
  • Tesla gets loan approval from US Department of Energy: Electric vehicle manufacturer will use loans to build an assembly plant for Model S sedan and another facility to manufacture electric powertrain - Tesla Motors - June.23.09
  • A Tesla In Your Future? PayPal's cofounder hopes to produce a practical $30,000 all-electric car in four years - Newsweek.com - July.12.08
  • Tesla to Build Electric Sedan in California; State Introduces New Incentive for ZEV Manufacturers - Green Car Congress - July.1.08
  • Tesla Motors Begins Regular Production of 2008 Tesla Roadster - Tesla Motors - Mar.17.08
  • Jay Leno's Garage - 2008 Tesla Roadster - video about the Testla roadster. Includes a discussion with Elon Musk and a test drive:
  • 2008 Tesla Roadster - First Drive - Motor Trend - Jan.25.08
  • Tesla: 'The Cars Are Coming In March. No -- Really.' - Wired.com - Jan.24.08
  • A Bit About Batteries - the Tesla blog - Nov.30.06 - mini-tutorial on the Li-Ion batteries in the Testla sports car
  • Lick My Silent Sports Car / How much has Big Auto lied? Take a drive in this four-wheel electric orgasm, and find out - San Francisco Chronicle - Aug.2.06
  • Tesla Motors Secures $40 Million Investment Round Led by VantagePoint Venture Partners and Elon Musk - TMCnet - May.31.06
    
• TH!NK - Norwegian electric commuter cars
  • Think Global Gets Investment from GE, Launches TH!NK City, Introduces New Crossover EV Concept and Signs Li-Ion Supply Deal with A123Systems - Green Car Congress - Mar.5.08
  • Can Think's electric car revolutionize the auto industry? Think's zippy little Web-enabled, carbon-free electric driving machine could help reverse 100 years of automotive history, writes Business 2.0 magazine. - CNN/Business 2.0 - August 1, 2007
• ThoRR - Electric Sports Car
• Toyota Rav4 EV
• Venturi - high performance sports car
  • Venturi Fetish - World's first production electric sportscar - gizmag - Mar.28.05
• Volvo's New 3CC :: ConceptCar automotive & design news
• XP Vehicles
  • The Inflatable Car - Product Design and Development - June.25.09
• ZAP Smart Car, 100% Electric EV, Hybrid, Fuel Cell, Alternative Vehicle, Portable Energy
  • ZAP Says its $30K Electric Sports Car Is Coming in 2009 - Wired.com - Jan.31.08
  • ZAP and Lotus to Use APX Concept as Basis for High-Performance In-Wheel Motor Electric ZAP-X - Green Car Congress - Jan.30.07
  • ZAP and Apollo Demo On-Board Ammonia Reformer for Alkaline Fuel Cell Car - Green Car Congress - May.23.05
• ZENN Cars (formerly Feel Good Cars)
  • EEStor - agreement for power source
  • Hamilton: Race is on to build a better electric-car battery - thestar.com - Oct.19.09
  • ZENN CEO Says EESU Status on Track, No Relation to Decision not to Sell cityZENN - All Cars Electric - Sept.23.09
  • Zenn stuck in neutral, awaits electric car battery - Reuters - Sept.22.09
  • Zenn CEO reveals details of EEStor's progress: Canadian automaker plans to incorporate ultracapacitors into its highway-speed electric vehicles starting in 2010, Ian Clifford says - Cleantech Group - May.22.09
  • Charged up over cutting-edge battery - The Globe and Mail - May.15.09
  • Zenn and the art of electric car maintenance: The breakdown of his beloved 1959 French electric car led to Toronto auto maker's "aha! moment" - reportonbusiness.com - Dec.2.08
  • ZENN and the art of driving - edmontonsun.com - Oct.5.08
  • Zenn swaps motors in latest electric cars - ZDsNet - Feb.1.08
  • ZENN Low-speed Electric Cars To Begin Shipments this Summer - EVWorld - Apr.13.06
    
• Zero
• Articles:
  • MIT electric car may rival gas models on performance - Network World - July.22.09
  • Electric cars: Juiced up and ready to go - New Scientist - July-20.09
  • MythBusters Hack Go-Karts in Electric vs. Gas Vehicle Test - Photos and Results - Popular Mechanics - June.08
  • A plug for your future car - Cosmic Log/msnbc.com - Apr.21.08
  • Six Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared - DIY Electric Car Blogs - Nov.21.07
  • Bollore Group Unveils Lithium-Ion EV at Geneva Auto Show - EV World - Mar.7.05
• Electric Scooters and Motorcycles
  • Electric Scooters Reviews
  • Aprilia - Electric Bicycle, Motor, Assisted
  • Brammo Eelectric Motorcycles
    • Brammo Impulse
    • Brammo Empulse: The New 100mph King of Consumer Electric Motorcycles, Sold At Best Buy - Popular Science - July.15.10.
  • Ecodrive Technology Group Inc - supplier of e-cycle Electric Vehicles.
  • Electrobike
  • electric-scooters-fun.com
  • Electric Scooters - all kinds of electric scooters for sale
  • Electric Scooters Outlet
  • eROCKIT | A new vehicle category: The Human-Hybrid-Motorcycle
    • E-Bike: Boost Muscle Power 50 Times for 50 mph Bike - Next Big Future - July.14.09
  • LightEV - 2 and 3 wheeled vehicles. Agreement with EEStor
  • Mission Motors
    • Electric Motorcycle Promises 150 MPH - Wired - Feb.5.09
  • Piaggio MP3
    • The $9000 Plug-In Hybrid That Will Beat the Volt to Market: Advanced engine tech in Piaggio's new 140mpg three-wheeler can future-proof your commute - Pop Science - Apr.6.09
  • Segway - high tech scooter
    • Segway usage by police and security growing - gizmag - May.31.06
    • Amazon.com Exclusive Offer - Segway - Nov.18.02
    • Can Segway's scooter speed snail mail? - CNET - June.4.02
  • Segway/GM PUMA
    • GM and Segway's P.U.M.A: City Vehicle of the Future or Next-Gen Golf Cart? (With Video!) - Popular Mechanics - Apr.7.09
  • StreetStalker - electric scooters
  • ZAP Power Systems Electric Bikes
  • Neodymics™ bicycle-to-moped upgrade
  • Oxygen Cargoscooters
  • Zero Motorcycles
    • Zero Takes Electric Motorcycles to the Street - Wired.com - Apr.7.09
  • Articles
    • Best Buy Takes a Flyer on Brammo Electric Cycles - Wired.com - May.28.09
    • KTM Promises a Race-Ready Electric Motorcycle In 2010 - Wired - Feb.3.09
    • A Plug-in Motorcycle - IEEE Spectrum - Feb.08
    • Bike maker heads for electric avenue - CNET - Mar.4.05
• EV Racing
  • NEDRA (National Electric Drag Racing Association)
  • Current Eliminator - world record holder for EV dragsters
  • GreenMotorsport - electric racers
  • KAZ Electric Car - 311.67 km/h top speed
• NESEA
• Voltage Vehicles! - dealer for many different electric cars, bikes,scooters,etc.
• Motors, chargers, etc.
  • WaveCrest Laboratories - innovative electric motors
  • Raser Technologies - high efficiency, high torque, low cost electric motors
  • PWP Web : EV Program - Charging Information -describes the different kinds of standard EV charging systems, including the fast, high power type (400amp, 240V)
  • Ultra Quick Battery Charge System Developed: 50% Full in 3 Minutes - Gas 2.0 - May.5.10
• Hybrids:
  • CompareHybridCars.net - All hybrid and electric cars
  • Hybrid Cars - "Great starting point for hybrid vehicle research".
  • Hybrid Cars - eartheasy.com
  • NREL: Advanced Vehicles and Fuels Research - Hybrid Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles
  • Hybrid Consortium
  • GreenHybrid - Hybrid Electric Vehicles & Cars
  • Ford:
    • Escape Hybrid
    • Ford Fusion hybrid hypermiles, goes 1,445 miles on a single tank
  • Honda
    • 2005 Honda Accord Hybrid - AutoWeek - Feb.28.05
      
    • 2005 Honda Accord Hybrid - Automobile Magazine
    • Best Hybrid Vehicles - Why Buy A Hybrid Car?
    • Honda Civic Hybrid (available for 2003 model year)
      • 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid Car Review - Ars Technica - July.02
      • Honda Puts Hybrid Engine Technology Into Mainstream with Civic Model - Fuel Cell Today - May.2.02
    • Honda Insight
      • InsightCentral.net: Honda Insight hybrid electric car
      • Ars Technica Honda Insight Hybrid gasoline-electric car
  • Lightning Hybrids
    • Lightning Hybrids Develops Biodiesel-Hydraulic Hybrid - Inventorspot - Apr.12.09
  • Toyota:
    • Toyota Prius
    • Toyota's FT-HS Hybrid Sports Concept: "Eco + Emotion" - Autopia - Dec.27.06
    • 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid Official World Premiere - Treehugger - Jan.10.06
    • Lexus Hybrid Luxury Sports Sedan announced - gizmag - Mar.24.05
  • Subaru B9 Scrambler - 2003 Tokyo Motor Show
  • L3 Research Inc - prototype hybrid sports car
    • e-Profiles: Summer 2001 - L3: The Ultimate Engineering School Odyssey
  • Sigma Automotive
    
    • Electrocharger / Retrofit Hybrid :: Sigma Automotive
  • Revealed: Volkswagen's 69.9 MPG Diesel Hybrid - Wired - Mar.3.08
  • Plug-in Hybrids
    • RechargeIT.org - Google.org Project
    • Hymotion - Tomorrow's Technology for Today's Vehicle
    • Reviews:
      • All About Plug-In Hybrids (PHEVs) - CalCars' Vehicles
      • Fly the Road - Venture Vehicles
        
        • Venture Vehicles Developing 3-Wheel, Tilting Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle - Green Car Congress - Feb.18.07
      • Plug-in Hybrids: Complete Coverage on the Real Future of Electric Cars - Popular Mechanics - Apr.07
    • BYD Auto
      • F3DM: The Second, Smaller, Plug-in Hybrid by China's BYD - TreeHugger - Mar.18.08
      • BYD displays plug-in hybrid F3DM at Geneva Auto Show-Company News-BYD AUT0- Mar.6.08
    • Fisker Automotive - plug-in hybrid technology
      • Fisker Unveils New Plug-in Hybrid Project: The government will loan Fisker $528 million to bring a luxury sedan and an upcoming family car to market - Potential Energy/Technology Review - Sept.22.09
      • Fisker Karma Plug-In Hybrid Hits the Track - Wired.com - Aug.17.09
      • Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing Fisker Reveals the Production Karma - Wired.com - Dec.3.08
      • Fisker Raids GM to Build His Hybrid - Wired.com - Nov.25.08
      • Electric Car Start-Up, Fisker, Opens Huge Center in Michigan - Gas 2.0 - Nov.11.08
      • Fisker's Still Testing Its $80K Hybrid But Already Considering a Sequel - Wired - May.13.08
      • First Pics! Fisker's $80K Hybrid Hits the Road - Wired - May.9.08
      • Fisker's $80K Plug-In Hybrid to Be Made in Detroit? - Wired.com - Jan.28.08
      • Detroit: Fisker Showcases the Sexiest Plug-In Hybrid Ever - Autopia from Wired.com - Jan.14.08
        
    • GM:
      • Volt plug-in hybrid - goal is production by late 2010
      • We'll See A Chevrolet Volt By June - Wired - Mar.27.09
      • The Chevy Volt Will Save GM (And Get The Girl) - Wired.com - Nov.6.08
      • GM engineer says 150 mpg electric car on schedule - al.com - Aug.15.08
      • Charge! GM gives update on Volt development, describes interior - Autoblog - Apr.4.08
      • Detroit 2008: Saturn shows off Vue hybrids, plug optional - Autoblog - Jan.15.08
      • GM and A123Systems to Co-Develop Lithium-Ion Battery Cell for Chevrolet Volt - Green Car Congress - Aug.9.07
      • GM Introduces E-Flex Electric Vehicle System; Chevrolet Volt the First Application - Green Car Congress - Aug.9.07
      • GM plans two very different plug-in electric vehicles - USATODAY.com - July.18.07
      • GM Plans Gas-Electric Car to Catch Up to Toyota, People Say - Bloomberg.com - June.23.06
    • Milner Motors
      • ElectriCar
    • Toyota
      • Toyota Announces Development of Plug-In Hybrid; First Manufacturer to Have PHEV Certified for Public Road Use in Japan - Green Car Congress - July.25.07
    • Volvo
      • Volvo To Show Flex-Fuel Plug-In Hybrid Concept at Frankfurt - Green Car Congress - Sept.6.07
        
    • VW
      • VW Rolls Out a Sweet Plug-In Hybrid - Wired.com - June.26.08
  • Articles
    • When will plug-ins pay off? - Cosmic Log/msnbc.com - Dec.15.09
    • A plug for your future car - Cosmic Log/msnbc.com - Apr.21.08
    • Ford Expects Hybrids To Start Turning Profit - FuturePundit - Jan.17.08
      
    • A car that could save the planet—fast - Business 2.0 - May. 5, 2006
    • Hybrids At The Crossroads - Popular Mechanics - Feb.06
    • Hybrid Cars Burning Gas in the Drive for Power - NY Times - July.17.05
    • Diesel Hybrids on the Fast Track - Wired - Mar.21.05
    • Why the future is hybrid - Economist/FuelCellWorks - Dec.17.04
      
    • Rivals Join To Develop Hybrid-Car Technology: DaimlerChrysler, GM Had Spurned Gas-Electric Idea - Washington Post - Dec.14.04
    • In Ford's Tomorrow, Fuel-Saving Hybrids And a Luxury Lincoln - NY Times - Apr.8.04
    • Hybrids' Rising Sun: Gas-electric cars are transforming the auto industry. Toyota's head start has Detroit scrambling to catch up. - Technology Review - Mar.15.04
    • Fuel Cell Hybrid Scoots To Market - Fuel Cell Today - Mar.4.04
  • High Performance Hybrids: pure electrics and the early hybrids can give the wrong impression that hybrids are inheritly whimpy. In fact, hybrids are actually ideal for providing max power over the whole speed range since electric motors provide full torque at low RPMs and gas engines provide power and high efficiencies at high RPMs.
    • The High-Performance Hybrids - New York Times - Sept.25.05
    • Hybrid Sports Cars - NY Times - Sept.14.04
    • Acura to unveil hybrid DN-X concept car at New York auto show - CanadianDriver.com - Mar.19.02 - includes pictures
• Fuel Cell Powered Plane
• Articles
  • High performance Electric Vehicle from the team that gave us the MINI (skirt that is) - gizmag - July.10.06
  • New Korean EV Mini-Car - Green Car Congress - May.30.05
  • Robot cars rally for desert race - CNET News - July.28.03
  • Car Makers Go Green With Hybrids - Wired - Apr.17.03
  • GM pulling plug on electric cars - CNN.com - Apr. 9, 2003
  • 10 Techno-Cool Cars : Spectrum picks the 10 most technically sophisticated cars for 2003 - IEEE Spectrum - Feb.21.03
  • UFE Means Ultra Fuel Economy (55km/liter, 130mgp) - EV World - Jan.25.02
  • Electric Cars Try to Turn Corner - Wired - Dec.14.01
  • Still Crazy Over Electric Cars - Wired - March.26.01
• Links
  • The Auto Channel
  • GreenerCars.com
  • just-auto.com

   

Other Innovative Vehicles and Vehicle Technology

• Loremo.de - Startseite
  
  • The 157 mpg Loremo (Low Resistance Mobility) LS - gizmag Article - Mar.2.06

Energy policy & General Info:

• The Cost of Energy - Lou Grinzo - "collaborative project is intended to help non-experts teach themselves about the issues and policies surrounding energy."
• www.fueleconomy.gov - DOE site about auto fuel effieciencies

Energy & Power Production

• Fusion Power - see Science Section
• Clean Coal / Carbon Sequestration / Air Capture
  • GreenFuel Technologies - algae bioreactor system mitigates NOx and CO2 and produces clean, high-quality biofuels as a by-product. GreenFuel is emissions to biofuels.
    • Algae like a breath mint for smokestacks - USATODAY.com - Jan.10.06
  • Carbon Sciences
    • Breakthrough Science: Turning CO2 into Fuels - Inhabitat - Oct.13.08
  • Get Ready for Air Capture Archives - Prometheus - Dec.15.05
  • Bush Administration Announces Plan to Build Zero-Emissions Power Plant - EyeforFuelCells - Mar.20.03
  • Carbon burial experiment works - BBC - Sept.10.02
  • Carbon sequestration: Fired up with ideas - Economist.com - July.4.02
  • DOE Fossil Energy - Carbon Sequestration
  • Carbon Sequestration in Coal - Coal-Seq.com
  • Clean Coal Technology Compendium
  • IEA Coal Research - The Clean Coal Centre
    • Technologies
  • Department of Energy - Fossil Energy
  • U.S. Seeking Cleaner Model of Coal Plant - NY Times - Feb.28.03
• Nuclear (Fission) Power
  • Inherently safe reactors:
    • World and I Magazine - Alternative Nuclear Power - nice review of nuclear reactors
    • Romawa BV - Small Nuclear Reactor
    • PEBBLE BED MODULAR REACTOR - Eskom - South Africa
      • Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way - Wired News - Nov.18.03
    • Pebble bed reactors - The Next Atomic Age: Can Safe Nuclear Power Work for America? - Popular Mechanics - Dec.07
    • China to pioneer "pebble bed" N-reactor - FInancial Times - Feb.7.05
    • Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom: Explosive growth has made the People's Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy. - Wired - Sept.04
  • MIT Study Sees Nuclear Power as Green Weapon Against Global Warming - Physics Today - Dec.03
  • Village invited to test cheap, clean nuclear power - Anchorage Daily - Oct.21.03
  • Oklo Fossil Reactors - natural nuclear reactors
    • Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors - APOD - Oct.16.02
  • Modular/Cartridge Reactors
    • Hyperion Power Generation
      • Nuke Notes: What's a small reactor like you doing in a market like this? - Idaho Samizdat - Sept.3.09
      • Mini Nuclear Power Plants Could Power 20,000 Homes - PhysOrg - Nov.10.08
    • Nuscale
    • Toshiba 4S - Wikipedia
    • A Proposed Factory Built Modular Light Water Reactor and Review of Other Types of Proposed Factory Built Reactors - Next Big Future - June.16.09
  • Thorium
    • Energy from Thorium- A weblog devoted to the discussion of thorium as a future energy resource, and the machine to extract that energy--the liquid-fluoride nuclear reactor
      • Energy from Thorium: Introduction and Basic Principles
    • Thorium reactor - Wikipedia
    • Energy-amplifier design using accelerator:
    • Thorium companies:
      • ThoriumEenergy.com
      • Thorium Power
    • Videos:
      • The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be - Lecture given at Google
      • YouTube - Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor
    • Articles:
      • UK Telegraph supports new Thorium Energy Amplifier Subcritical Accelerator Driven Reactor Project - Next Big Future - Aug.31.10
      • Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium - Telegraph - Aug.29.10.
      • Special Report - Energy - Considering an Alternative Fuel for Nuclear Energy - NYTimes.com - Oct.19.09
      • Nuclear News: Dawning of the Age of Thorium, Six Reactors for India and Progress to Laser Enrichment - Next Big Future - Feb.4.09
        
  • Nuclear Batteries
    • Nanomaterial turns radiation directly into electricity - New Scientist - Mar.27.08
    • Silicon Solution Could Lead To A Truly Long-life Battery - ScienceDaily/NSF - May.28.05
    • New 'Nuclear Battery' Runs 10 Years, 10 Times More Powerful - PhysOrg - May.12.05
  • Accelerator Driven Reactors:
    • Molten-salt based accelerator-driven subcritical reactor - Next Big Future- Apr.2.10.
  • Other designs:
    • Traveling-Wave Reactor: A new reactor design could make nuclear power safer and cheaper, says John Gilleland - Technology Review: - March/Apr.09
  • Articles:
    • Nuclear Fusion and New Nuclear Fission Technology - Next Big Future - May.4.09
    • The Next Atomic Age: Can Safe Nuclear Power Work for America? - Popular Mechanics - Dec.07
    • Stronger Future for Nuclear Power - Physics Today - Feb.06
    • China Leaps Forward: The people's republic is embarking on the world's biggest nuclear building spree - Newsweek/MSNBC.com - Feb.6.06
    • Environmental Heresies By Stewart Brand - Technology Review - May.05
    • Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power by Peter W. Huber, Mark P. Mills - City Journal - Winter 2005
    • A New Vision for Nuclear Waste: Storing nuclear waste underground at Yucca Mountain for 100,000 years is a terrible idea. A better approach may be to buy some time until new containment technologies mature. - Technology Review - Nov.15.04
    • The Witch of Yucca Mountain: More research on nuclear waste storage won't reassure the public - Technology Today - Mar.12.04
• Solar Power
  • The Solar Guide - your guide to solar and renewable energy
  • Solar Power Information, Discussion and News
  • Andalay
    • DIY Solar Panel Installation - Are Cheap Solar Panels Finally Here? - Popular Mechanics - June.19.09
  • Advent Solar
  • BP Solar, the natural source for electricity®
  • Emcore PhotoVoltaics
    • Exfoliation produces lighter, cheaper solar cells - New Scientist - July.13.2007
  • DOE - Solar
  • Dow Chemical's solar roof tiles:
    • Solar Shingles See the Light of Day: Dow Chemical readies easy-to-install solar roofs. - Technology Review - Jan.22.10
    • DOW™ POWERHOUSE™ Solar Shingle Unveiled – Groundbreaking New Technology for Affordable Solar Power Building Integrated Photovoltaic Roofing Shingle Expected to Bring Affordable Renewable Energy to Consumers - Dow Chemical - Oct.5.09
  • Evergreen Solar
  • First Solar
    • Solar Panels Get Cheap, But Will the Trend Last? - Research says Silicon Solar Panels like First Solar Uses May Not Hold Up to Scale - Popular Mechanics - Feb.26.09
    • First Solar Passes $1 Per Watt Industry Milestone: Company Cuts Manufacturing Cost to 98 Cents Per Watt in Fourth Quarter - First Solar - Feb.24.09
    • IEEE Spectrum: First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt: Within five years, this company's thin-film solar cells could compete with coal - Aug.08
    • First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt - PhysOrg - July.23.08
  • GE Energy - Solar Power
  • Green Mountain
  • GreenStar
  • LightPath Technologies
  • Solar_Energy_Alliance
    • The History of Photovoltaics
      
  • 1366 Technologies
    • Making solar cheaper than coal - CNET News - Mar.6.09
    • 1366 Technologies is Bringing Solar Power Closer to $1/Watt - TreeHugger - Mar.27.08
  • MSK Corp. - PV systems
    • PV-TV: A Multifunctional, Eco-Friendly Building Material - Metropolis Magazine - July.27.04
  • QuantaSol
    
    • QuantaSol unveils 28.3% efficient single-junction solar cell World Record - QuantaSol - June.30.09
  • SUNIVA - A World Leader in PV Technology: providing high efficiency silicon photovoltaic cells to the solar power industry
    • Efficient, Cheap Solar Cells: New materials for high-performance cells could make solar power affordable - Technology Review - Sept.23.08
      
  • Renewable Energy Sources - Solar
  • Solar power cost:
    
    • Solar Cost FAQ
      
    • Solar Photovoltaic Industry Cost and Price Trends
    • Steep Price Drops For Solar Photovoltaics - FuturePundit - Aug.15.09
      
  • Tape/Thin Foil PV
    • Ascent Solar: ITN
    • AVA Solar
      
      • New Low Cost Solar Panels Ready for Mass Production Industry Week - Sept.10.07
      • High Efficiency, Low Cost Solar Technology Developed At Colorado State to Begin Mass Production - AVA Solar - Sept.07
    • DayStar Technologies, Inc.
      
      • Solar start-up snags $35 million as CIGS ignites - ZDNet - Oct.27.06
    • Global Solar
    • HelioVolt - Solar Power
    • Konarka - PV on plastic tape
      • Startup Makes Cheap Solar Film Cells With Inkjet Printer - Konarka Power Plastic - Popular Mechanics - Mar.6.08
        
    • Nanosolar - PV tapes
      • Advantages - table
      • Thin-film outfit Global Solar touts efficiency, seeks expansion funds CNET - Mar.14.08
        
      • Solar energy 'revolution' brings green power closer - The Guardian - Dec.29.08
      • Nanosolar Starts Thin-Film Solar Panel Production - Earth2Tech - Dec.12.07
      • 10 Questions for Nanosolar CEO Martin Roscheisen - Earth2Tech - July.30.07
      • Nanosolar Secures $100,000,000 in Funding/Nanosolar to Build 430MW Solar Cell Factory - Nanosolar - June.21.06
        
      • With hefty funding, solar start-up takes on big guns - CNET News.com - June.21.06
        
      • Nanosolar Gets $100M for PV - Red Herring - June.21.06
        
      • Largest Solar Cell Factory Coming to Bay Area - Globe St. - June.21.06
      • Aiming for the Sun - Technology Review - June.15.05
      • Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics -The Hindu - Feb.3.05
        
    • Nanosys
    • PowerFilm Inc. - The worlds most lightweight and flexible solar panels
    • Solexant
      • Thin-Film Solar with High Efficiency: Solexant is printing inorganic solar cells with nanomaterials - Technology Review - Nov.19.09
    • Xunlight Corporation
      • Roll-Up Solar Panels - Technology Review - June.4.09
  • Concentrator/Solar Thermal Systems
    • Ausra
      • Solar thermal projects gather steam: -- and opposition: Scores of grand-scale facilities are proposed for California. Their possible effect worries environmentalists and others - Los Angeles Times - Dec.3.08
    • eSolar
      
      • Cheap Solar Power - Bill Gross of eSolar - Technology Review: Videos - Feb.10
        
      • Energy Innovations - Bill Gross (Idealab) project
      • EI Solutions
      • The Dotcom King & the Rooftop Solar Revolution - Wired 13.07 - July.05
    • GreenVolts
      • GreenVolts breaks ground on America’s largest HCPV power plant - GreenVolts - Aug.1.08
        Infinia Corporation
        
    • Infinia Solar System
      • An old engine learns new solar-power tricks: Could solar power and 19th-century engineering combine to help save Detroit? - CNN - Mar. 24, 2009
        
    • Open Energy Corporation
    • Prism Solar Technologies, Inc.
      • Holographic Solar: New Method of Concentrating Sunlight Could Be Cheaper - Treehugger - Apr.28.06
    • Pyron Solar - Hydrogen Energy System
      • Is this Truly, a Revolution in Solar Energy Production? - Earthtoys - June.2005
    • Skyline Solar
      • Cheaper Solar Concentrators - Technology Review - May.4.09
    • Solaria Corporation
      • Slicing Up Silicon for Cheaper Solar -Technology Review - Mar.14.08
    • Soliant Energy
    • Solyndra - The New Shape of Solar
      • Solar Goes From Gardens to Gigabucks - Wired - Oct.7.08
      • Solyndra Reshapes Solar Panels For Commercial Rooftops: Proprietary panels designed to provide higher electricity output per rooftop and significantly reduced installation costs: Company announces more than $1.2 billion in customer contracts. - Soyndra - Oct.7.08
    • Sopogy - MicroCSP Distributed Solar Solutions
    • Stirling Energy Systems Inc.
      
      • 6 Cents Per kWh: World's Largest Solar Project Unveiled - Treehugger - Aug.14.06
      • World's largest solar installation to use Stirling engine technology - Open Source Energy - Aug.11.05
        
    • Sunrgi :: Solar Energy Systems
      
      • XCPV Solar Panels Aim for Much Cheaper, Chip-Based Power: First Look (With Video!) - Popular Mechanics - Sept.30.08
      • Focusing on Solar's Cost - Technology Review - May.7.08
      • Sunrgi's 'extreme' solar concentrators to match grid power - CNET News - May.2.08
    • Concentrating Solar Power/SunLab Home
    • Stellaris Corp. - Concentrating Photovoltaic Glazing (CPG)
    • Johnson Thermoelectric Energy Conversion System
      • Super Soaker Inventor Cuts Solar Power Costs - Johnson Thermoelectric Energy Conversion System - Heat Engine - Popular Mechanics - Jan.8.08
    • Articles:
      • Solar for Dark Climates: Solar technology that generates both heat and electricity could make solar energy practical in places that aren't sunny - Technology Review -July.8.09
      • New rays of hope for solar power's future:High cost of fossil fuel and advanced technology improve this energy source’s prospects - csmonitor.com - Aug.22.08
  • Nanotech/Quantum Dots/Other new solar technology approaches
    • Caltech Researchers Create Highly Absorbing, Flexible Solar Cells with Silicon Wire Arrays - Caltech - Feb.16.10
    • Nanopillar Solar Cells: A new solar-cell design could cut costs and is suitable for large-scale flexible panel - Technology Review - July.6.09
    • New plastic can better convert solar energy - CTV.ca - Jan.9.05
      
    • Nanotechnologists' new plastic can see in the dark: Infrared-sensitive material five times more efficient converter of solar energy - University of Toronto - Jan.10.05
  • Solar Power System Dealers:
    • AstroPower
    • Energy Tower - Solar Electricity, Anywhere - an "open source" inspired project
    • Solar Direct
    • Solardepot.com
    • SkyBuilt Power's Mobile Power Station - compact, modular unit uses solar cells and wind generator to power to remote areas and for disaster relief.
  • Utility PhotoVoltaic Group
  • Photovoltaics at NREL
  • Solar Sailor - large solar powered sail boat in Australia
  • Solar Ark - Sanyo Demo project for solar cells and LED Lighting
  • IAUS Bladeless Turbine
  • Stirling Energy Systems - mirrors heat up a Stirling engine
    • Huge Solar Plants Bloom in Desert - Wired - Nov.15.05
    • Sun catchers tuned to crank out the juice - EETimes.com - Nov.22.04
    • UNLVSolarSite at Univ. of Nevada
  • Solar Chimney / Power Towers
    • Australia plans world's tallest tower - BBC - Jan.5.03
    • Tower of Power - Bulletin - Dec.5.01
    • Creating New, Sky-High Power - Wired - Sept.18.01
  • Spheral Solar Power
    • Solar plant will bring ATS into 'new era,' employ 175 - The Record.com - July.18.02
  • Space Solar
  • Light Piping / Hybrid Solar Lighting
    • All About SunPipe®
    • DayRay - Flexible Daylighting - previously FluroSolar
      
      • FluoroSolar - Bringing the Sunshine Inside - Treehugger - May.2.06
    • Parans
    • Solatube
    • New lighting system transports sunlight to where it's needed - Gizmag - June.10.05
    • Hybrid solar lighting - Google Search
  • Solar powered applications
    • Introducing the Solar Tree
    • Solar Hydrogen Company Secures $4.7M in Series A Round - Green Car Congress - Jan.16.08 - system to generate hydrogen via solar power and catalyst
  • Articles
    • Green machine: Cheaper home power from sunlight - New Scientist - Apr.27.10
    • Pushing Plastic Solar Cells - Technology Review - Apr.30.09
    • Biggest Solar Deal Ever Announced - We're Talking Gigawatts - Wired - Feb.11.09
    • Solar's Time Has Finally Arrived - Yale Environment 360 - July.28.08
    • Harvesting the Sun's Energy with Antennas - Idaho National Lab - Dec.12.07
    • Forecast for solar power: Sunny - USATODAY.com - Aug.28.07
    • 40% efficient solar cells to be used for solar electricity - PhysOrg - June.1.07
    • Device Uses Solar Energy To Convert Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel - ScienceDaily - Apr.18.07
    • New World Record Achieved in Solar Cell Technology: New Solar Cell Breaks the"40 Percent Efficient" Sunlight-to-Electricity Barrier - Dept. of Energy - Dec.5.06
    • Cheap, Superefficient Solar: Solar-power modules that concentrate the power of the sun are becoming more viable - Technology Review - Nov.9.06
    • Hybrid Solar Lighting Goes Into Beta Testing - Treehugger - Aug.10.06
    • Sandia, Stirling To Build Solar Dish Engine Power Plant - Sandia/Spacedaily - Nov.12.04
      
    • Raise the Roof: Power Source - Wired News - Oct.22.04
    • Discovery may spur cheap solar power - CNN.com - Oct.2.03
    • Spectrolab Terrestrial Concentrator Solar Cell Achieves Unparalelled Solar Energy Conversion - Spectralab - July.25.03
    • Concentrating on Solar: Israeli scientists are teaming mirrors, fiber optics, and photovoltaic cells to bring solar power to a new intensity.- Technology Review - May.30.03
    • Solar cells go organic - Economist.com - June.20.02
    • Self-Assembling Organic Thin Films And Solar Power - Unisci - Aug.28.01
• Wave/Tide Power
  • Aquamarine Power
    
    • Scotland's First Minister launches Oyster - Aquamarine Power - Nov.20.09
  • Ocean Power Delivery Limited
  • Ocean Power Technologies
  • wavegen.co.uk- electricity generation, wave energy, ocean power
  • Articles:
    • Wave farms show energy potential - BBC - Mar.2.07
    • How it works: Wave power station - BBC - Nov.20.01
• Wind Power
• Vertical Axis Generators
  • Enviro Energies
  • QuietRevolution
    
  • The Wind Energy Frontier: _Urban Retail Markets - Focus - July/Aug.2004
  • TMA WIND - Moya Terra Aqua
    • New Turbine May Boost Wind Power - Wired - Nov.5.05
• Flying wind generators:
  • Magenn Power
  • Sky WindPower Corp. - high altitude tethered wind generators
  • Flying wind farms: Power generation: If people object to wind farms cluttering up the countryside, one answer might be to put them in the air - Economist.com
    
• Clipper Windpower, Inc.
• FloDesign Wind Turbine
  
  • A Design for Cheaper Wind Power: A design that draws on jet engine technology could halve the cost of generating electricity from wind - Technology Review - Dec.1.08
• Selsam Wind Turbing - www.superturbine.net
  • Ten Times the Turbine : Doug Selsam's Sky Serpant uses an array of small rotors to catch more wind for less money - Popular Science - June.08
  • Superturbines: The Ultimate Win-Wind Renewable Energy Solution - dailygalaxy.com - May.18.08
• Wind Energy and Wind Turbines: Danish Wind Industry Association
• REpower 5M
• Windbelt
  • Windbelt - Third World Power - Wind Generator - Video- Popular Mechanics - Oct.07
  • Windbelt Technology - HumdingerWind.com
• Home Windpower:
  • Wind Generator Authority - Hurricane Wind Generators
  • Southwest Windpower
    • New Turbine To Make Wind Power Cheaper and Easier To Install - TreeHugger - June.29.06
  • Renewable Devices / Swift Turbines - small turbine that can be attached to the roof of a house.
    
    • Micro-Wind for the Home - WorldChanging - July.5.05
      
• American Wind Energy Association 
• Articles:
  • A More Durable Wind Turbine - Technology Review - Dec.4.09
  • Wind Energy - Turbine - Transmission Wire - Battery Array - Offshore Farm - Denmark - Texas - Popular Mechanics - May.07
  • Wind Energy Eyes Record Years of Growth, Job Creation - AWEA News Release - Mar.15.06
• Shale Oil
  • Chattanooga Corp Successfully Converts Shale to Oil with Lower Impact Process - Green Car Congress - Sept.20.05
    
  • BLM Receives 19 Lease Applications for Oil Shale Research, Development and Demonstrations - Green Car Congress - Sept.22.05
    
  • Growing enthusiasm for Shell shale plans - Post Independent [CO] - Sept.7.05
    
  • Shell to Take 61% Stake in China Oil Shale Venture - Green Car Congress - Sept.1.05
• Energy from Waste Products
  • Changing World Technologies
  • Iogen - ethanol, bioethanol, enzymes, cellulose, biotechnology, renewable energy
  • Shocking Way to Transform Waste - Wired - Mar.4.04
    
• Waste Heat Energy Recovery:
  • Ener-G-Rotors
    • Electricity from Waste Heat: Ener-G-Rotors' system harvests energy at lower temperatures - Technology Review - Nov.21.08
• Biofuels
  • Amyris Biotechnologies
    • Biofuel Startup Strives to Meet Obama's Green Ambitions - Wired Science - Nov.16.08
  • Algae:
    • GreenFuel Technologies
    • Sapphire Energy
      • Start-Up Promises 1 Billion Gallons of Algal Fuel By 2025- Wired - May.5.09
    • Solazyme
    • Solix Biofuels
    • Articles:
      • Algae Biofuel Projects - Top Algae Fuel Producers - Popular Mechanics - Oct.13.09
      • Green power from algae? - Cosmic Log/msnbc.com - Mar.30.09
      • Powering Our Automotive Future with--Pond Scum: Even Bill Gates thinks the future of biofuels is not corn, or even cellulosic ethanol, but algae - Scientific American - Sept.23.08
      • Making Renewable, Carbon-Neutral Oil - From Algae - Wired.com - May.29.08
      • The Greenest Green Fuel - Popular Science - July.07
  • Green Car Congress: Verenium Commissioning Cellulosic Ethanol Demo-Scale Plant; Targeting Cost of $1.34/Gallon - Green Car Congress - June.1.08
  • Startup Says It Can Make Ethanol for $1 a Gallon, and Without Corn - Wired - Jan.24.08
• Self-Powered Systems
  • EnOcean:radio switches and sensors without batteries
  • Human Powered Radios, Flashlights, etc - Freeplay - windup mechanisms eliminate the need for batteries.
  • FreePlay
  • New Backpack Generates Its Own Electricity - National Geographic - Sept.8.05
• Thermoelectric Power
  • Material that turns heat to power gets efficiency hike - New Scientist - July.24.08
  • Free Power for Cars: Automakers look to thermoelectrics to help power tomorrow's vehicles. - Technology Review - Dec.5.05
• Piezoelectric effect for energy production
  • Wiggling Plastic at River Bottom to Generate Electric - Discovery News - Aug.26.08
• Other Technologies
  • Bad News: Scientists Make Cheap Gas From Coal - Wired - Mar.26.09
  • Whisper Tech - The Low Maintenance Home Heat & Power Generator
    • The Wobble Yoke And Stirling Engine
  • Cheaper Veggie Diesel May Change the Way We Drive - Nat. Geo - Nov.15.05
  • Big green energy machines: How are we going to generate more power and decrease its impact on the environment? - The Industrial Physicist - Oct.2004 - ZEPP: zero-emission power plant
  • Water sparks new power source - BBC - Oct.19.03 - pressure differential across microtubes creates a voltage and small currents sufficent to power microelectronics.
• Home Independence
• Home Power Magazine, the hands-on journal of home-made power.
• design outlaws - ecological design
• Building a Home Power Monitoring System - Londra Systems
• Build a Solar Home and Let the Sunshine In - Mother Earth News - Aug/Sept-2002

Advanced Mass Transit

• Monorail
  • Monorail News Briefs - Monorail Society
    • The romance of the monorail - MSNBC - Nov.1.02
  • The Monorail Society
    • Las Vegas Monorail System - opens 2004
    • Niles Monorail - backyard monorail!
  • Las Vegas Monorail
  • American Maglev Techonlogy - Magnetic Levitation Transportation System
    • History
    • Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, Virginia - 3200ft track - AMT left the project in 2005
      • ODU's maglev train on track to future - VirginianPilot - June.14.02
      • Taking a maglev for a test drive - VirginianPilot - May.28.02
      • Maglev train bound for ODU takes shape in Florida - VirginianPilot - Mar.10.02
    • Current test track is in Powder Springs, Georgia
  • Articles
    • Monorail on City's One-Track Mind - Wired - Nov.7.02
• Maglev
  • Transrapid - German maglev builder
  • Maglev trains - How Stuff Works
  • LaunchPoint
    • Magtube Transit System
  • SkyTrain MagLev
    • Unimodal, Inc
    • SkyTran - Wikipedia
    • NASA Partners to Revolutionize Personal Transportation - NASA Ames - Sept.2.09
    • NASA works on robo-podcab scheme: Robosaurus inventor gets backing for Mag-lev personal transporter - The Register - Sept.3.09
  • Maglev sets a speed record of 581 kph- Japan Times - Dec.3.03
• Personal Rapid Transit:
  • Raytheon Personal Rapid Transit
  • ULTra -  Advanced Transit Systems Inc
    • ULTra system at Heathrow Airport
      
  • Taxi 2000 Corporation - Personal Rapid Transit
    • Magnetic train vows super speed - USA Today - July.7.01
  • Personal Rapid Transit Startup - Technology Review - Feb.9.09
• Automated electric advanced transit technologies
• Adtranz - a DaimlerChrysler division
• Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT)
• Supertram test to ease traffic - BBC - Jan.17.02
• Articles
  • China Awaits High-Speed 'Maglev' - Wired - Jan.20.03
  • High-Speed Trains Are Catching Up - Technology Review - Oct.11.01

Hoovercraft

• Hoverclub of America
  • Hovercraft Links
• Audi Shark Hovercraft Has Teeth - Wired - Mar.6.09

Submarines/Underwater habitats:

• U.S. Submarines : luxury submarines, manned submersibles, tourist submarines, habitats
• Gemini by Subeo - The worlds first two man recreational submarine
• Personal Submersibles Organization - PSUBS.ORG
• Deep Flight - H.O.T.
  • Soaring under the Bay / San Anselmo man builds cheaper, faster high-tech submarine - SF Gate - Jan.24.03
• NOVA | Underwater Dream Machine | A Lifelong Dream | PBS
• Poseidon Undersea Resorts
  
• Jules Underwater Hotel
  
• Hydropolis
  
• Ocean Base - JMS Naval Architects & Salvage Engineers
• Sub-Find - arrange for access to submarines and underwater habitats
  
  • Underwater Habitats - Trilobis 65 Floating Home
    
  • Cliff Top (and bottom) Living - gizmag
• Articles:
  • Winged luxury submarines 'fly' underwater - CNN.com - Mar.6.09

Watercraft:

• SkySails - sail tug for ships to lower fuel costs
  
  • Bremen's shipping company Beluga Shipping GmbH purchases the first SkySails system for cargo ships. - SkySails - Jan.26.06
• Gibbs Aquada - amphibious sports car
• Terra Wind - luxury amphibious motor coach / yacht
• M80 Stiletto - M Ship Co - M shaped hull reduces roll and the wake
  
  • M Ship Co. - Specializing in Next Generation Hull Technology
  • M80 High-speed No-wake landing craft- Murdoc Online - Jan.13.06
• Human powered watercraft:
  • Pumpabike
    
    • Human-powered hydrofoil seeks jumpy riders - New Scientist - May.23.05
      Pumpabike
      
  • Decavitator - Human-Powered Hydrofoil - MIT
    
  • Human Powered Boats
• Articles:
  • Researchers want a submersible airplane - NetworkWorld.com - Oct.6.08
    

Other transport tech

• Hyperbike.info
  • HyperBike Has NASA Looking Twice - Hyperbike - Jan.22.07
• More power to pedal pushers?: Revolutionary crank could speed cycling. - Nature - Sept.27.02
• Plustech Walking technology - 6 legged vehicles used for logging (great videos)
• Strandbeest - wind driven walking machines

   

Architecture

• Green Roofs:
  • Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: WC Retro: Green Roofs - WorldChanging - July.5.06
    
  • Green Roofs - EarthPledge.com

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• Advanced Aviation
  
• More Cool Tech: 3D Displays, Robotics, etc.
• Technology for Developing Countries...
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