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Alternative-Fuel Vehicles
& Mass Transit
Hertz EV Car Rental Program [launched 12/2010]
EV World Online
Alternate Fuel Vehicle Group
U.S. E.P.A. Green Vehicle Guide
Michelin Challenge Bibendum [est. 1998]
Electrifying Times Magazine
Better World Club - eco-friendly roadside services [est. 1996]
Freedom From Oil pages at Jump Start Ford website
U.S. Dept. of Energy Transportation pages
Alternative Fuels Data Center
FreedomCAR & Vehicle Technologies Program
for info on alternative energy technologies click here
Automotive > Electric & Hybrid > Bestsellers books catalog at Amazon
New & Different Technologies
flying boats from Seair Technologies, Inc. [est. 1997] of Seattle, WA
Mercedes-Benz 3-wheel F300 'Life Jet' [1997 concept vehicle]
Willie Nelson's Farm Fresh BioDiesel
Escargot Motors: importers of Citroën 2CV cars to U.S.A.
 | "Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation" [2010] by Steve Lehto, Foreword by Jay Leno In 1964, Chrysler built a fleet of turbine cars – automobiles with jet engines – and loaned them out to members of the public. The exercise was a raging success: the engines would run on any flammable liquid and contained one-fifth the number of moving parts, requiring much less maintenance; the cars had no radiators or fan belts and never needed oil changes. Yet Chrysler crushed & burned most of the cars two years later. Questions about how and why the program & technologies were killed have still not been satisfactorily answered. Chicago Review Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2010] for $16.47 |
"The Last Dymaxion: Buckminster Fuller's Dream Restored"
[Rocket Cat Films 2012]
 | Stage performer Noel Murphy spent two years filming interviews, then got help via Kickstarter to finish this film about the genius & inventions of R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]. Edited by Todd C. Hartman; featuring Jay Baldwin, architect Norman Foster, architect Luis Galliano, Jay Hubbard, car buff Jay Leno, Brian Mallow, Rick Overton, Ocean Robbins, daughter Allegra Fuller Snyder, exec director of B.F.I. Elizabeth Thompson & Lynne Twist
DVD/Blu-ray not available movie entry at Wikipedia • watch 11/2011 promo/trailer [4:41] on Vimeo |
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Smart® City-Coupé by DaimlerChrysler
Smart® City-Coupé in USA [available in 2005] US distributor Zap! of Santa Rosa, CA Sixti [low-cost car rental in Europe - Smart® vehicles from €5/day] |
Personal Mobility Devices
Toyota PM [4-wheel 'personal mobility' concept vehicle] shown 2003
broken concept vehicle page at Toyota website •
Wikipedia
Honda U3-X personal mobility device - shown 9/2009
9/2009 press briefing video •
Wikipedia
 | Mini-Farthing Design Group
{licensee} YikeBike of New Zealand The YikeBike mini-farthing folding electric bike weighs 25 or 32 pounds and has a range of 8½ miles (or up to 42 with battery packs); maximum speed is 20mph. Discovery Channel interview [4:44] 4/2013 YikeBike official promo [3:16] at YouTube 32¼-pound YikeBike Fusion model for $2,395 at Amazon YikeBike Synergy model for $3,680 at Amazon 25-pound YikeBike Carbon model for $4,495 at Amazon |
  | Segway® Ninebot official website
Segway Los Angeles - rentals & sales, 1431 Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, CA |
 | "Reinventing The Wheel: A Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition" [2005] by Steve Kemper HarperBusiness 8¼x5¼ pb [3/2005] out of print/many used "Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway & Dean Kamen's Quest To Invent A New World" [2003] by Steve Kemper Harvard Business School 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2003] for $18.52 |
Amazon dropped their Segway Store, and almost no items were listed on the Amazon website by 2015 - but the Segway Store is back now.
Segway Store at Amazon - scooters, bikes, gokarts, skates, transporters
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Segway Ninebot S Smart Self-Balancing Electric Scooter with LED light
choose black or white; designed with Mobile App Control; steering controls at adjustable knee height; 14-mile range electric scooter transporter from Segway [5/2019] for $489.99 (FREE shipping) Segway Ninebot S-Plus Smart Self-Balancing Electric Scooter with Intelligent Lighting and Battery System, Remote Control, and Auto-Following Mode choose black or white; designed with Mobile App Control; steering controls at adjustable knee height; 22-mile range electric scooter transporter from Segway [9/2019] for $779.99 (FREE shipping) |
 | Xiaomi Ninebot Plus N4M340 11-inch Electric Self-Balancing Scooter [July 2017]
not sold on Amazon; apparently licensed by Segway to Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi; sale prices mid-2017 range from $500 to $600, plus shipping; the Xiaomi Ninebot Plus is an enhanced version of the earlier model |
Human-Powered Vehicles
California Bicycle Coalition
Nevada Bicycle Advisory Board
KickBike U.S.A.
SideWalker U.S.A.
Seven Cycles [custom-made] [est 1997]
Schwinn Cycling & Fitness, Inc. [est. 1895]
Restore Classic Bicycles info site
Maple Island Sales - retro bicycle parts [est. 1991]
Menotomy Vintage Bicycles (and parts) [est. 1996]
Burley® bicycle products including bicycle trailers
Sun Bicycles EZ-3 recumbent trike
Catrike® Road recumbent tricyle: website • available at Amazon for $1,995
Greenspeed recumbent trikes of Australia & Illinois
4-wheel 1- & 2-seater RhoadesCar bicycles [est. 1980]
Trikke® 3-wheel exercise scooter (for adults & kids)
Trikke also makes electrified & snowboard models {last update here 8/2012}
official website • • entry at Wikipedia
Slider The Unscooter™ Three-Wheeled Action Scooter [2007]
model U6 for kids with 6-inch wheels for $159.99
Intl. Human-Powered Vehicle Assn.
Interbike Expo [Oct] & Winterbike [Feb]
Old Schwinn {online} Bicycle Museum [est. 1999]
Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, OH
League of American Bicyclists [est. 1880]
Community Bike Recycling Program of Albuquerque, NM
 | "Bicycle: The History" [2004] by David V. Herlihy Yale Univ Press 10x7 pb [8/2006] for $20.51 Yale Univ Press 10¼x7½ hardcover [11/2004] out of print/many used |
 | "Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide To Riding Your Bike" [2012] by Grant Petersen Kindle Edition from Workman Publng [5/2012] for $8.51 Workman Publng 9x4½ pb [5/2012] for $11.16 |
An Army lieutenant at Fort Missoula in Montana had the idea of replacing horses with the newly-invented 'safety bicycle'; he got approval from the brass
and recruited soldiers from the all-Negro 25th Infantry and after several test sorties, they set out on a 41-day, 1700-mile trek to St. Louis, Missouri.
 | "The Bicycle Corps: America's Black Army On Wheels" [2000] hour-long TV documentary produced, written & directed by Gus Chambers P.B.S. 60-minute color DVD [2/2007] out of prodn/used P.B.S. 60-minute color VHS [9/2000] out of prodn/used credits at IMDb |
 | "Iron Riders: Story of The 1890s Fort Missoula Buffalo Soldier Bicycle Corps" [2012] by George Niels Sorensen
Pictorial Histories Publng 10¾x8¼ pb [6/2012] for $11.66 |
 | "The Great Bicycle Experiment: The Army's Historic Black Bicycle Corps, 1896-97" [ages 9-14; 2012] by Kay Moore – many photographs Mountain Press Publng 8¾x5¾ pb [8/2012] for $9.99 |
![Bicycling Magazine [est. 1961] subscription](covers/mBicyclingMag.jpg "Bicycling Magazine [est. 1961] subscription") | Bicycling Magazine [est. 1961] from Rodale
subscribe at Amazon: 10 issues/year auto-renewal for $14.97 magazine website entry at Wikipedia |
Mass Transit
California 'MagLev' High-Speed Rail Project
Advanced Vehicle Transport {car-train} proposal
High-Speed Ground Transportation Assn.
California High-Speed Rail Authority
Indiana High-Speed Rail Assn.
Florida High-Speed Rail
Virginians for High-Speed rail
![Midwest High-Speed Rail Assn. [est. 1993] based in Chicago, Illinois](images/MidwestHighSpeedRail.jpg)
Northeast Corridor High-Speed Rail Program
Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor
Railway Technology's list of current projects
Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Southern California
Angelino Heights Trolley Line in Downtown Los Angeles, CA {site dead? 2014}
Freight Train Riders Assn.
National Assn. of Railroad Passengers
Train Riders Assn. of California
Rail Passenger Alliance of California
Arizona Rail Passenger Assn.
New Mexico Rail Passenger Alliance
United Rail Passenger Alliance [of U.S.A.]
Light Rail Central info site
Californians for High-Speed Trains Coalition
Elon Musk's Hyperloop transportation plan [8/2013 PDF file]
'Austin Rail Now' weblog [est. 3/2013]
'streetcars in North America' page at Wikipedia
![Rail Europe [est. 1930s] is based in White Plains, NY — one-stop booking service for over 50 different train companies across Europe, billed as 'the leading authority on European rail travel'](images/RailEurope.jpg){kind=small}
![The Light Rail Now! Project [est. 2000] is based in Texas, USA](images/lightrailnow.jpg){kind=small}
AMTRAK in the U.S.A. [est. 1971]
Amtrak's High-Speed Rail Program
VIA Rail Canada Passenger Service [est. 1978]
Eurostar Group Ltd. high-speed rail service [est.1994] between London and Paris
K.L.I.A. Ekspres [est. April 2002] in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
'Rail Runner' Commuter Train [launched in 2006] in New Mexico, USA
Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (Basel Transport Service) in Basel, Switzerland
founded in 1895, expanded to Germany in 2014, expanded to France in 2017 - making it the world's first trinational streetcar system
 | "Supertrains" [1976] by John Gabriel Navarra from the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry Doubleday 9½x6¼ hardcover [1976] out of print/used Doubleday 9½x6¼ library hardcover [1976] out of print/used |
 | "The New Transit Town: Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development" [2003] Edited by Hank Dittmar & Gloria Ohland Kindle Edition from Island Press [2003 edition] for $17.27 Island Press 9x8 pb [12/2003] for $27.20 Island Press 9½x8¼ hardcover [12/2003] out of print/used |
 | "Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation" [2009] by Paul Weyrich & William S. Lind A collection of studies that supports a conservative view that light rail, commuter rail, and intercity rail are good for America Reconnecting America 9x8 pb [2009] out of print/used |
 | "Rising Force: The Magic of Magnetic Levitation" [2011] by James D. Livingston Harvard Univ Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [5/2011] for $18.07 |
 | "The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and The Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway" [2014] by Doug Most Kindle Edition from St. Martin's/Macmillan [2/2014] for $12.74 St. Martin's Press 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2014] for $19.29 |
Self-Driving Vehicles
The future is nearly here. Uber has self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, and maybe San Francisco. Google has new patents. Tesla is testing a self-driving car in California. Working prototype autonomous vehicles are being developed by AKKA Technologies, Audi, Autoliv Inc., Bosch, Continental Automotive Systems, General Motors, Google Inc., Hyundai Motor Company, I.A.V. GmbH, Local Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Oxford University, Peugeot, Renault, Tesla Motors, Toyota, VISlab (University of Parma), and Volvo.
'autonomous car' entry at Wikipedia
September 2017 article by
Marshall Tulley on the website of Muzi Ford in Massachusetts
Lots of new activity from Tesla and competitors, so these four sections were cut to an EV+hybrid page in Spring 2022. 
Hybrid Gas-Electric Vehicles
Hybrid Hydrogen-Electric Vehicles
Fuel-Cell Vehicles
Electric Automobiles
on the Working Minds / Solutions / Electric & Hybrid-Electric Vehicles Page
top of page • Hybrid Vehicles • Fuel Cell Vehicles • Electric Vehicles
Electric Bicycles, Scooters, etc.
Palmer Industries 'neighborhood transportation products'
Independence Model 24 |
two-seater Carryall |
two-seater Model 24
Bigha Bicycles of Corvallis, Oregon
Zap® & Zappy®: electric scooters • electric ATVs • electric bikes
![Whizzer Motorbikes [est. 1939]](images/Whizzer.gif)
Natural Gas Vehicles
California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
Canadian Natural Gas vehicles Alliance
Intl. Assn. for Natural Gas Vehicles
Natural Gas Vehicles in Japan
Australasian NGV Council { site down? 6/2006 }
French NGV Assn.
Subaru B4 CNG vehicle
Opel Zafira erdgas/CNG vehicle [German-language]
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Clever - Compact Low Emission VEhicle for uRban transport - prototype |
Light-Than-Air Craft
Airship & Blimp Resources [est. 1995]
Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen, Germany [English or German]
Zeppelin Museum near Frankfurt, Germany [German-language only]
Lockheed-Martin's new P-791 tri-lobe airship {Nov 2006 photo, in new window}
Airship Management Services of Greenwich CT
Goodyear® blimps official website
MetLife® blimps [est. 1987] official website
Outback Steakhouse Restaurants blimp Bloomin' Onion I [traveling USA in 2007]
The Lightship Group - USA airship operators
Bell Canada blimp campaigns [2005 & 2006]
Budweiser® Bud One Airship [1991?-2001]
Ginn Resorts Skysign blimp [Feb-Aug 2007]
G.M.-Holden Lightsign blimp [launched 2007] in Australia
H.P. Hood Lightship [active 2007]
Horizon-Blue Cross-Blue Shield Lightship [launched 1997]
Mazda of Germany blimp campaign [1999-2001]
MetLife® blimps Snoopy 1 & Snoopy 2 [launched 2002] plus new third airship [launched 2007]
Monster.com airships Trump & Skeeter [2000-2001]
Sanyo Lightship blimp [launched 1997; retiring 2007]
Saturn Lightship blimp [launched 2001; retired 2004]
T-Mobile blimp campaign [2004]
 | "The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: Graf Zeppelin & Hindenburg" [1986] by Harold G. Dick, with Douglas H. Robinson
Smithsonian 10x8 pb [11/92] for $23.77 Smithsonian hardcover [1/86] for $0.00 |
 | "U.S.S. Los Angeles: The Navy's Venerable Airship & Aviation Technology" [2002] by William F. Althoff
Brassey's 11x8.6 hardcover [12/2003] for $45.00 Brassey's pb [8/2002] out of print/used |
 | "The White Diamond" [documentary feature Nov 2004] Directed by Werner Herzog Herzog films the eccentric airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington's quest to fly a miniature helium airship over the jungles of Guyana, twelve years after his friend nature filmmaker Dieter Plage fell to his death on a similar expedition. Fox Lorber widescreen color DVD [10/2005] for $14.99 full credits at IMDb |
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