| HybridCars.com | HybridCars.com is part web journal, part online community, and part hybrid market research organization. They works closely with the University of Michigan's Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation in developing surveys and other research projects related to the emerging hybrid market.
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| NewWaveCars.com | NewWaveCars.com is an information resource discussing cars that run on fuels other than gasoline or diesel. This includes fuel cells, natural gas, hybrid cars, ethanol, biodiesel, but not electric. Sigh.
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| Plug-In Partners | Plug-In Partners is a national grass-roots initiative to demonstrate to automakers that a market for flexible-fuel Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) exists today. They are forming partnerships with government, non-profit and business interests across the United States to raise awareness.
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| Alternative Fuel Vehicle Group newsletters | Your source for news and information on the rapid advances in natural gas, biofuel, battery-electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. The Alternative Fuel Vehicle Group newsletters are the most widely read and respected publications covering alternative fuel vehicles. Each newsletter includes a searchable archive of back issues.
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| NREL's Hybrid Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles | NREL's Hybrid Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles research supports the U.S. Department of Energy's FreedomCAR & Vehicle Technologies Program.
NREL works toward developing hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrids and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs); moving them from research and development to the marketplace. The laboratory began investigating HEV technologies more than a decade ago. In the past few years several commercial HEV models, which are powered simultaneously by batteries and fuel, have taken their place in the mainstream automobile market. More recently, HEV drivetrains have been used successfully in heavy-duty trucks, buses, and military vehicles.
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| AFS Trinity | AFS Trinity is developing advanced energy storage systems for hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, power quality and aerospace applications. AFS Trinity's Extreme Hybrid™ drive train is expected to be the first practical drive train for plug-in hybrid vehicles, enabling cars to achieve 250 MPG.
AFS Trinity Power Corporation is a private company focused on developing advanced energy storage technologies for hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, power quality and aerospace applications. The Company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and has an engineering center in Livermore, California.
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| Green Hybrid | Articles and discussion forums about hybrid electric vehicles. Well researched and very informative.
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| AutoBlogGreen.com | Part of the Weblogs Network, this blog covers Green Automobiles in all varieties.
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| Energy Control Systems Engineering | Provides leading edge consulting, design and prototyping services for system integration, management and monitoring of electrochemical energy systems such as batteries and fuel cells. They are said to be the grandaddy company of plug-in hybrid vehicles.
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| Hymotion | A green technology company, is to provide a new generation of hybrid and alternative fuel solutions to our customers who value green and innovative technologies. They are developing a conversion kit for the Prius to make it a plug-in hybrid. They were recently purchased by A123Systems, so clearly their future conversion kit will use A123systems batteries.
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| Hybrids Plus | A Colorado based company developing kits for converting Prius and Escape hybrids to plug-in hybrid. The kits are due to be available in August 2007.
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| Electric and Hybrid Cars | Information about some of the electric and hybrid cars, focusing mostly on the currently available vehicles.
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| Luscious Garage | This is a car repair shop in San Francisco specializing in hybrid electric vehicle service and modification. They offer conversion to plug-in hybrid.
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| Manual Intervention Motor Assist | 99MPG. com was started to support the MIMA modification to the Honda Insight, but has morphed into a site where creative individuals that have modified their hybrid cars to improve the efficiency can share their work with other like minded people.
We need to start now to save ourself s by working together.
They are a small group of people who are working on modifying their cars for higher efficiency.
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| NREL: Advanced Vehicles & Fuels research | The United States faces major challenges in meeting the ever-increasing demand for transportation goods and services while striving to minimize adverse energy, environmental, and economic impacts. More efficient vehicles are imperative to meet these challenges. That's why NREL is working to advance energy efficient vehicles and environmentally friendly fuels.
Working in partnership with public and private organizations, we research, develop, and demonstrate innovative vehicle and fuel technologies that reduce the nation's dependence on imported oil, and improve our energy security and air quality. Our goal is to help industry introduce advanced, low emission, economically competitive vehicles and fuels into the marketplace. Our work in this area supports several NREL programs and is led by the Center for Transportation Technologies and Systems.
Advanced Vehicles & Fuels Research Areas
AFDC
Ancillary Loads Reduction
Clean Cities
Energy Storage
Fleet Test & Evaluation
Fuel Technology Impacts
Heavy Hybrids
HEV/FCV
Petroleum Based Fuels
Power Electronics
NGV Technology Forum
Nonpetroleum Based Fuels
ReFUEL Laboratory
Regulatory Support
Vehicle Systems Analysis
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| The Zero-Carbon Car @ Solutions for Sustainability | What does it really take to, for real, completely and totally, have a car which has zero carbon footprint. This is a phrase that's bandied around but what does it really mean. The Zero Carbon Car is a book which explores these questions. The author built his own plug-in hybrid electric vehicle to explore these questions.
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| Green Car | A leading website dedicated to providing avid car enthusiasts, environmentalists and everyday consumers with information about green vehicles, green energy and technologies.
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| Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity | The Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA) is conducted jointly by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The data on this web site only reflects the analysis results for the testing activities directed by the INL. The primary goal of AVTA is to provide benchmark data for technology modeling, and research and development programs, by benchmarking and validating the performance of light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles that feature one or more advanced technologies.
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| Clean Cities: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | Clean Cities strives to advance the nation's economic, environmental, and energy security by supporting local decisions to adopt practices that contribute to the reduction of petroleum consumption. Clean Cities has a network of approximately 90 volunteer coalitions, which develop public/private partnerships to promote alternative fuels and advanced vehicles, fuel blends, fuel economy, hybrid vehicles, and idle reduction.
Clean Cities is part of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technologies Program.
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| Northeast Advanced Vehicle Consortium | The NAVC is a public-private partnership of companies, public agencies, and university and federal laboratories working together to promote advanced vehicle technologies in the Northeast United States. We serve as a hub of advanced transportation activity in the Northeast: through the NAVC, manufacturers, researchers, utilities, universities, government agencies and environmental advocates are linked, sharing information and collaborating on projects. The NAVC also conducts technology analysis, publishing educational reports on clean vehicle technologies for the transportation community, technology developers, policymakers, and environmental advocates. The NAVC is not only an invaluable resource for funding and information, but also a much-needed advocate for clean-fuel technologies.
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| Prius Chat | Online discussion board focused on the Prius. They have room for related topics, other hybrid cars, even electrics.
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| HybridChat | Discussion board about hybrid electric vehicles of all kinds.
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| Greencar - Electric Cars, Hybrid Cars and More | A leading website dedicated to providing avid car enthusiasts, environmentalists and everyday consumers with information about green vehicles, green energy and technologies. Many of our articles like How To Get The Best Car & Fuel Economy and How Hydrogen Fuel Cells Work are written to provide our audience with the most current research and to help car buyers make the most informed purchases. Green Car will soon offer visitors with an interactive application like a gas savings calculator and relevant videos covering the green car space.
Hybrids, Electric Cars, Plug-Ins, Ethanol, Natural Gas, Biodiesel, Hydrogen Cars & Fuel Cells, Air Powered Cars, Future Cars & Technology
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| Hybrid Cars | News, information, research and discussion about hybrid electric cars. The technologies covered are Hybrid, Diesel, Stop-Start, Ethanol, Electric and Hydrogen. The site includes a small forum section.
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