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 Business: Industries: Transportation
Recreation: Autos
Science: Technology: Transportation
Society: Issues: Transportation
ACEEE Green Book
Ranks cars and trucks according to environmental friendliness. Using this consumer guide, buyers can compare cars, vans, pickups, and sport utility vehicles by their environmental impacts, including air pollution, global warming, and fuel efficiency.
Alternative Fuel News
The online version of the DOE's alternative fuels newsletter, including past issues.
The Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Directory
Comprehensive. Covers EV conversions, batteries and fuel cells, U.S. Gov research sites, university projects, regional associations and manufacturers.
Argonne National Laboratory Transportation Research
Performs research in advanced automotive technologies such as hybrid electric vehicles, emissions reduction, and clean diesel engines.
BC Research: Centre for Alternative Transportation Fuels
Information resource on alternative fuels (propane or LPG, natural gas, hydrogen, methanol, ethanol, biodiesel), hybrid electric vehicles, batteries and fuel cells.
Boron: A Better Energy Carrier than Hydrogen
Proposes that cars should use boron as a fuel for propulsion and asserts that boron is a safer fuel than hydrogen or gasoline.
CARAT: Cooperative Automotive Research for Advanced Technology
US DOE sposored program to support the design, development and introduction of advanced energy-efficient automotive components and systems.
Clean Vehicles
Alternative fuel resources companies, products, refueling sites and funding sources.
Dual Fuel Caterpillar Engines
Truck engines use natural gas and diesel fuel simultaneously to reduce emissions without power and compression loss.
IndiRail: A clean transportation system
Conceptual proposal for an infrastructure for transportation aimed at the use of renewable energy sources.
International Academy of Science: Hydrogen Technical Papers
Series of papers on hydrogen as an automotive fuel.
Motor Development International
Zero Pollution Vehicles - Revolutionary compressed air motors can power a vehicle up to 120 miles.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Center for Transportation Analysis
Research and development on transportation energy and environmental issues, national transportation planning and policy, and transportation systems engineering.
Office of Transportation Technologies
U.S. Department of Energy -- Alternative fueled vehicles, electric vehicles, encouragement of "clean cities".
Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
Partnership between the U.S. federal government and Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors to develop technologies for a new generation of vehicles. Goal is to develop an environmentally friendly car with up to triple the fuel efficiency of today's midsize cars.
Permo-Drive
A hybrid-drive braking system designed for the heavy transport industry that recovers braking energy thus increasing fuel efficiency.
Research: Georgia Tech Research Institute
The Advanced Transportation and Advanced Systems (ATAS) Laboratory works on electric and hyrogen vehicle projects.
San Joaquin Valley Clean Cities Coalition
A complete alternative fuel vehicle (afv) resource including a buyers guide, alternative fuel station locators, state and federal funding list, current alternative fuel prices, laws, events and news. Specific areas of focus are CNG, hybrids, ethanol, methanol, and electric vehicles.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Alternative Fuels Data Center
information on alternative fuels and vehicles.
Veggie Van
Fueled with used vegetable oil from fast food restaurants, this van can go up to 65 mph and has traveled 10,000 miles.
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