Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies (HEVT) out of Chicago, Illinois is one of 120 current contenders for the Progressive Automotive X-Prize. The Automotive X-Prize is giving away a $10 million award to the company that creates a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) vehicle that is production ready and that people will want to buy.
The winning [...]

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The Fuel Vapor Technologies (FVT) Ale is running on fumes, literally. This three-wheeled vehicle that they are calling a sports car (of course, we’ll see about this in California) is able to get up and go from 0 to 60 mph in just 5 seconds and as also able to achieve a very economical 92 [...]

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One would expect an electric vehicle website to show the worst case scenario regarding hydrogen cars and the best case showing everything else. After all electric cars and hydrogen cars are natural enemies, right?
Well, if you buy into the “Who Killed the Electric Car?” movie you may buy into the idea that hydrogen cars and [...]

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Propane conversion kits have gotten a lot of attention lately as gasoline prices still hover in the $4 per gallon range. With propane selling between $2 and $2.70 per gallon, depending upon the part of the country you’re in, many motorists have taken to converting their cars to this relatively inexpensive fuel.
But, more so than [...]

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I’ve talked about run your car on water systems many times over the past few months. The critics say that this hydrogen on demand technology simply cannot work. In the past few days I’ve come across a document by the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) stating that the critics are wrong.
Yes, the DOT report, [...]

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