GM Hy-wire fuel cell concept car.

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
• Apollo Energy Systems - developing combination alkaline fuel cell and advanced Lead-Cobalt battery system.
  • ZAP and Apollo Demo On-Board Ammonia Reformer for Alkaline Fuel Cell Car - Green Car Congress - May.23.05
    
  • Producing Hydrogen - Apollo Energy Systems - May.05
• Arthur D. Little, Inc. Consulting
• Astris Energi Inc. - alkaline fuel cells
• 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
• 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
    
• FuelCells.org
• Fuel Cells Info Center - News
• Fuel Cells DOE
• FuelCell Energy Corp.
• FuelCellWorks.com
• Greenvolt - fuel cells
• Hpower Corp
• IdaTech | Advanced Fuel Cell Solutions
  
• Intelligent Energy
• Jadoo Power Systems -
  • Hydrogen fuel cells power TV news crews - CNET - Apr.12.05
• Mechanical Technology, Inc. - several fuel cell subsidiaries
• Millennium Cell - hydrogen storage system
  • 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
    
• Powerball Technologies - Hydrogen Energy without pressure
• Plug Power, L.L.C. - Fuel cells for home power
• Proton Energy Systems
• ReliOn - Hydrogen Fuel Cells
• Safe Hydrogen LLC - hydride slurry release H2 when mixed with water
• XCellsis - Fuel cell engine company
• Collecting the History of Fuel Cells: A Smithsonian Research Project
• Fuel Cells - Google Directory
• Fuel Cell Powered Planes
• Fuel Cell Powered Cars (see below)
• 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
  • Docomo fuel cell targets mobile recharging of phones - EE Times - Oct.1.04
  • Miniature fuel cells may oust batteries - New Scientist - Mar.8.04
  • 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:
    • 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
    • SolarPACES
      
  • 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
  • Articles:
    • Hydrogen fuel cells power TV news crews - CNET - Apr.12.05
• Fuel Cell Education & Hobbies
  • The Fuel Cell Store - Educational Materials
  • Heliocentris
  • The Subatomic Assembly of H₂ - Popular Science - Dec.03
• 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.
  • AMMINEX
    • Hydrogen storage technology
    • Danish Researchers Reveal New Hydrogen Storage Technology - ScienceDaily - Sept.8.05
  • Apollo Energy System: Fuel Cell Development
    
    • Producing Hydrogen - Apollo Energy Systems - May.05
    • ZAP and Apollo Demo On-Board Ammonia Reformer for Alkaline Fuel Cell Car - Green Car Congress - May.23.05
  • 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
    • Tiny fuel cell could power laptop computers, portable music players - Biodesign News Detail - Sept.12.06
  • 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
  • Stuart Energy: The Hydrogen Fuel Company
  • Gallium/Aluminum
    • Engineers perfecting hydrogen-generating technology - Purdue - Aug.27.07
  • Home H2 production:
    • Backyard Fuel Cell - Wired PLAY - Mar.2007
  • 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
    • 'Nanoporous' material gobbles up hydrogen fuel - New Scientist - Nov.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
    • Carbon Nanotubes Store Hydrogen in Step Toward Hydrogen Vehicles - PhysOrg.com - Feb.16.06
    • The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel - IsraCast - Oct.24.05 (metal+water=oxide + H2 + hot water)
    • Storing Hydrogen As Ammonia - WorldChanging - Sept.13.05
      
    • Start-up zeros in on hydrogen fuel cells - CNET - July.11.05
    • 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
    • Hydrogen Fuel Closer to Fruition - Wired News - Sept.2.04
    • 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
    • Sewage turned into hydrogen fuel - New Scientist - Apr.29.02
• Fuel Cell Cars
  • Diamler-Benz
    • NECAR 3
  • FCHV - Toyota
    • Toyota: Environmental Technology
    • 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
    • Honda to Launch Small Fuel Cell Sedan Fleet Next Year; Ford Follows 2004 with FC Hybrids - Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter - Apr.02
    • 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
    • GM Rolls Out Radical Fuel Cell "AUTOnomy" Car Concept at Detroit Auto Show - Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter - January 2002
  • 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
  • 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
      
    • Confusion, conflict stall alternative fuel cars - CNN.com - Sept.15.02
    • 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
  • BMW Unveils World's Fastest Hydrogen-Powered Ca - Reuters.com - Sept.23.04
• Articles:
  • 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
  • Bio-battery runs on shots of vodka - New Scientist - Mar.24.03
  • 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
  • Geoffrey Ballard: Developer of a Practical Hydrogen Fuel Cell - Discover Magazine Awards for Innovation - July.2002
  • Dreams of the New Power Grid - Popular Science - June.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
  • Ordinary energy powers new fuel cell - 3/23/2000 - ENN News
  • 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
    • An Electrifying Startup: A new lithium-ion battery from A123 Systems could help electric cars and hybrids come to dominate the roads - Technology Review - May/June 2008
    • 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
    • Battery Pumps Up Power Tools: A new lithium-ion battery from startup A123Systems promises five times as much power for 10 times as long as competitors - RED HERRING - Nov.2.05
  • 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
  • EnerDel, Inc. - Lithium Power Systems
    • EnerDel to Market Automotive Li-Ion Battery by End of 2008 - Green Car Congress - Dec.12.07
  • E-One Moli Energy
  • Lithion Inc.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Toshiba Li-ion
    • 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:
    • Austin is abuzz with technology in the electric car market - Stateman - Apr.14.08
    • 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
    • Lithium Ion Hybrid Batteries: A Laptop in Every Garage - Hybrid Cars - Jan.2006
    • 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
    • Metal mix boosts batteries - TRN - Oct.2.02
    • Bigger, Cheaper, Safer Batteries: New material charges up lithium-ion battery work - Science News - Sept.28.02
    • Nanosized lithium to pack more into rechargeable batteries - EE Times - Apr.5.02
• NiMH Batteries
  • Nilar
  • Ovonics
  • Rayovac Rechargables
    • Rayovac Announces Development of Revolutionary New Rechargeable Technology - Rayovac PR - Mar.19.02
    • Rayovac Promises Better Battery for Wireless Gadgets - Newsfactor - Mar.21.02
• Zinc-Air Batteries:
  • AER Research and tutorial
  • BAT International
• Sodium-Sulfur Battery
  • 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
• Other Batteries & Battery Related Technology
  • CompareEvBatteries
  • 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
  • Magnesium Batteries Show Mettle - Technology Review - May.13.03
  • Tiny Atomic Battery Could Run For Decades Unattended - ScienceDaily Magazine - Oct.18.02
• Battery Reviews:
• 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
    
    • AFS Trinity Unveils 250 Mile Per Gallon - AFS Trinity Power - Feb.23.05
  • Beacon Power - Energy Storage Systems
  • Flybrid Systems
  • LaunchPoint
    • Power Ring maglev flywheel
  • Optimal Energy Systems - fixed power systems and also for satellites
  • Unique Mobility
  • NASA Aerosapce Flywheel Development
    • Highlights and Accomplishments
  • Flywheel Energy Storage - Wikipedia
  • Articles:
    • 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 Overview
    • Maxwell Technologies' New Large Cell Ultracapacitors Provide... - Maxwell PR - May.6.02
  • Ultracapacitors at Hybrid Cars
  • Powercache: Ultracapacitors
  • IEEE Spectrum: The Charge of the Ultra - Capacitors
  • The Charge of the Ultra - Capacitors - IEEE Spectrum - Nov.07 - good review of ultracapacitors
  • MIT programs:
    • MIT Builds Efficient Nanowire Ultracapacitor Car Storage to Replace Batteries - Popular Mechanics - Feb.29.08
    • Why Ultracapacitors Will Be Your Hybrid's New Best Friend - Popular Mechanics - Feb.29.08
  • EEStor
    • 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: Automated Production Line Proven and Third Party Verification of All Key Production Chemicals Completed - MarketWire - Jan.17.07
    • 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
    • FGC Press Release April 11, 2006 - includes info on the EEStor system
    • 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
      
  • ePOD
    • Hybrid Battery / Super Capacitor (in development) - ePod Inc.
    • Canadian Firm Develops Fast-Charge Ultra-Cap 'Battery' - EVWorld
  • Articles
    • 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
    • A breakthrough in hybrid energy storage: Ultracapacitors pave the way for clean and efficient performance - BUSRide Magazine - September 2005
  • Capacitor tutorials:
    • CapSite 2006 Introduction To Capacitors
    • An Introduction To Capacitors at Bucknell Univ. f
      
• 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.
    • 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
      
  • Air-powered Autos: Zero-emission driving may be more than hot air - Technology Review - Sept.19.02
  • Car that runs on compressed air tries to make a go of it - CNN Money -Oct.28.02
  • Motor Development International, Guy Negre's Air-Powered Car
  • Howstuffworks "How Air-Powered Cars Will Work"
  • Compressed Air Vehicles... - SunWater
• 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