Bikes on demand in SF

Zip car is awesome, and now a similar dervice for bikes is being offered from the Metropoltan Transportstion Commission


http://www.7x7.com/travel-active/transported-bike-sharing-coming-sf

Electric Bike

http://sanfrancisco.goa2b.us/products/a2b

* A stylishly modern fusion between scooter and bicycle
* Ideal for urban commuting and short trips around town
* 100% electric; lithium-ion battery for clean, efficient energy
* 500 watt motor to power you up to 20mph and give you a lift up hills
* Disc brakes for excellent control and safety
* Full-suspension for a smooth ride
* Quiet, so you can still appreciate the world you’re riding through
* Baskets and side bags available to make commuting and shopping a breeze
* Simply plug in to recharge, 110v just like your laptop computer
* Power On Demand allows riders to choose between pedaling, electric motor power, or both.

Thanks to Christina for sending a link...

Honda FCX Clarity

This Hydrogen/Electric Zero Emission Car is available only in CA (mostly SoCal) and only by lease (at $600/month - ouch!). The range of 280 miles per fill up is respectable, but falls a little short of ideal.

You're also going to have to do some research on where to find hydrogen filling stations near you, OR... Honda offers a home filling station - but doesn't list it's price, which makes me think you'll need to take out a second mortgage to afford it.

mindset car

Swiss company Mindset have a concept car, designed by former Volkswagen designer Murat Guenak that they are aiming to have in production soon... a hybrid with solar back-up.

http://www.mindset.ch/

Biobling

A service that connects people to green cars and the fuel that runs them.

http://biobling.com/

also find biofuel here: http://www.nearbio.com/

Algae-Powered Van

Check out the story at Jalopnik:

http://jalopnik.com/394479/sears-tower-or-bust-my-algae+powered-car-adventure

Chevy Volt Gets Green Light?

It's rumored that The Board of Directors gave the green light to funding the Chevy Volt. My main question is why does GM have such a micro-managing Board of Directors? Don't they trust their employees to make smart decisions? This is probably the source of GM's tumble from the top.

Diesel Hybrid

http://www.lincvolt.com/

This guy is my hero, he's taking a 1959 Lincoln Continental Mk IV convertible, and putting a diesel-electric hybrid powertrain in it.

It's been a pipe dream of mine to do the same with one of my Cadillacs (well maybe not exactly a diesel-electric hybrid, but you know, something similar). Icant wait to see how this turns out.

http://www.lincvolt.com/

Hybrid cars

There's a whole slew of hybrids coming onto the market, so the "unique" styling of the Prius, or the crappy little Civic are no longer your only options to be greener... check out this site for a list of the options.

http://www.hybridcars.com/shop-by-technology/hybrid

The Twike

From the site: human-electric hybrid vehicle, designed to carry two passengers comfortably through any weather with speed and style, and without harmful emissions of any kind.


http://www.twike.com/

Electric ATV

Get your mud on without the CO2
http://www.barefootmotors.com/index.html

EcoMoto

http://www.ecomoto.org/ magazine

A blog from TrendHunter about eco trends.

from the home page "EcoMoto is a digest of Environmental Trends, Green Innovation, Electric Cars and Hybrid Cars discovered by our global network of trend hunters."

Fisker Karma

I love it! There are so many new companies springing up to make better cars! not only better for the environment better, but cars that look better as well.

This one is from a company called Fisker (no not the decorative scissor company) but named for Henrik Fisker, designer of some top-shelf autos.

Check out the car and company here: http://www.fiskerautomotive.com/

Cadillac going green?

Here's the latest concept from Cadillac - something called a Provoq.

What's great about it is that is is a hydrogen fuel cell powered automobile. Which means it's powered by a fuel cell system and a lithium-ion battery for an electrically driven vehicle that uses no gas and has no emission other than water.

Here's the article from Jalopnik with all the details:http://jalopnik.com/341986/ces-cadillac-provoq-hydrogen-fuel-cell-concept-revealed

Electric Car Conference

http://cleantech.berkeley.edu/

A collaboration between Standford and UC Berkeley presents a series of conferences on clean energy.

First Conference: Electrification of Vehicles
November 19th , 2007 1:00 – 7:00pm

Location
UC Berkeley – Clark Kerr Campus
2601 Warring Street Berkeley, CA 94720-2288


also coming up are two more conferences on:

- Clean Energy Generation
- Clean Energy Storage/Distribution

Driving Sustainably Conference

The Driving Sustainably Conference was held this year in Iceland. Go to the link below to see the presentations from the conference.

http://www.driving.is/driving07.html

GM addresses the Volt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNbNwst3_C4

green auto blog

http://www.autobloggreen.com/

Veggie Van

Converting your diesel auto to run on Vegitable oil
http://www.veggievan.org/

also:

http://www.biodieselamerica.org/