The first car ever built ran on steam, credit for this is a toss up between Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot and Ferdinand Verbiest. These designs were put in play around 1765. Cugnots Design was made in France, and Verbiests was created in China.

Cugnots version was designed to carry cannons for the French Army.

Siegfried Macus was the first man to propel a car or cart with the use of gasoline. Some time around 1870.

But before this there were two others who created propelled vehicles.

One inventor created his electric engine at some point in between 1832 and 1839.

And in the same time span one invented is solidly recorded having made an electric car in 1835.

These two men were Robert Anderson, and Sibrandis Stratingh.

Stratingh used the hands of an artisan assistant named Christopher Becker to put together the this electric motor car in 1835 in the Netherlands.

Robert Andeson completed his machine in Scotland.

The next great step in the advancement also was a achieved by two people.

Gaston Plante and Camille Faure both made significant improvements to the storage capacity of the electric battery.

This made electric cars very appealing.

At this point the French and the English governments saw electric cars as a very beneficial thing, and promoted them separately though out their realms.

The Jamaise Contente invented and driven by Camille Janetsy in 1899; broke the one hundred kilometer per hour/ sixty mile per hour, land speed barrier.

The actual speed achieved by the car is a little over sixty-five miles per hour.

The down side to electric cars of the time is that they were difficult to start. Sometimes they were dangerous to start.

In the United States of America electric cars flourished prior to the invention of the electric starter by Cadillac.

These car were the Baker, Detroit, Edison, and the Studebaker. These models out sold gasoline models until the electric starter made the gasoline models much safer to start up.

These common sense vehicles lead the way to the safe selection of electric cars available today.

Now that knowing how to get free electricity from radio waves is common knowledge; electric cars are a viable no emission option that can be coal fee with a little elbow grease from the industry in the next few years to come.

The CC VIVID Plus LED light bulb has a standard cork screw socket, but with a ten year lifespan and like most clustered LED light bulbs of its category, is quickly becoming the trend in sustainable solutions to indoor/outdoor artificial lighting.

The LED is a directional light, that will last for a long time and works well with dimming mechanisms, but when clustered (such as this one with 36 LEDs), that directional lighting quantifies immensely.

CC VIVID Plus LED is made by C. Crane Company Inc., available in AC or DC, 120V AC (1.84 Watts) and 12V DC (2.5 Watts), 60 lumens, 36 LEDs, dispersed output, average bulb life of 60,000 hours (ten years), safe for outdoor/indoor/small space use, with a two year warranty, measures 3.25 x 2.25 and ships at one pound.

Energy efficient, dispersed higher light output, perfect for accent lighting, reading, porches, smaller rooms, hallways, cubbyholes, or wherever needed most around the home; clustered LED light bulbs such as the CC VIVID Plus LED light bulb are a great way to improve the environmental friendliness of your home for a more self-reliant way of life that starts with your pocket book.

V2G, also known as plug-in hybrids really are an ideal option for commuter cars, due to recent improvements with rechargeable batteries, helping to actually stabilize the grid with home recharging during non-peak hours and solar panel recharging during peak hours with its excess energy supply being sent back to the grid when it most needs it.

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Equipping the first Google fleet of gas/electric cars with data recording devices that come with technical read outs, charge history, environmental performance and patterns will make it possible to scientifically show the kind of results big car dealerships, not to mention consumers are lookingfor before actually investing.

A lot of people fear the use of electric vehicles because they think they will make our current situation even worse, but when businesses put up solar panels for recharging their fleet at work instead of fueling stations, the end result is actually extra energy keeping the grid stable as well as virtually eliminating CO2 emissions during the commuter week.

If every car in the US was currently a plug-in hybrid, charging in the garage at night, the usage would not endanger the grid at all, since those are sleeping hours.

But what about the hours while at work, during the day, you say? Solar panels located on the roof of an office building or parking lot roof can recharge the cars and fuel the grid simultaneously during even the highest peak hours; that is a sustainable solution that seriously offsets CO2.

The biggest reason for this offsetting is due to the fact that plug-in electric hybrids were developed to take on the commute to and from work, but for those long road trips, gasoline can still be used, while running the gasoline motor and braking, both regenerate the batteries as well.

If it takes only 2U$ to fill a battery for the commute to work, then at work, the battery is charged for free, while the buildings solar panels give-back to the grid, who will turn back to regular gasoline-only cars?

RechargeIT is a philanthropical initiative from Google.Org, to show the world what is possible with plug-in hybrid electric cars and vehicle to grid V2G solutions for commuting business people with one eye set on a more sustainable future, starting with what is possible today.

H2CAR is a new way to produce liquid biodiesel (fuel) from biomass with the addition of hydrogen; making that normal amount of biomass go three times farther than it normally would when chemically gasifying conventionally (without hydrogen).

Hybrid Hydrogen-Carbon Process basically blends two sustainable methods of fuel production for combustion (diesel) engines that free us from the uncontrolled and unregulated discharge of CO2 into the atmosphere, as has been the case with our planets overuse of fossil fuels for decades.

The logic behind this new sustainable biodiesel H2CAR relies on a more practical way of procuring and releasing the stored energy.

The solar-power electrolysis method for producing hydrogen uses 10 times less sunlight than biomass like soy or corn do; while at present the hydrogen in biomass is all that is being used in biofuel production.

Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen are the three gases biodiesel contains; injecting hydrogen would maximize its potential as a sustainable resource.

Biomass is used as a carbon, while hydrogen is extracted through carbon-free methods (like solar-hydrogen-electrolysis).

They are chemically gasified, chemically liquefied and when burned in the combustion chamber of a train, plane or automobile, a far wider range of carbons are spent than is traditionally so with conventional biodiesel designs (which have a 60 70% carbon inefficiency rate).

H2CAR uses hydrogen to suppress the formation of CO2 in liquid hydrocarbon fuel; converting all the carbon atoms available into useable fuel.

Biodiesel comes from biomass that has captured CO2 through normal photosynthesis, which is then released back into the atmosphere when expended, thereby virtually closing the CO2 circuit and becoming in this way a cleansource of energy fuel that can be used to power our cars.

The traditional biodiesel cycle is labeled zero-emissions, even though biodiesel does emit CO2, as the whole process is self-containing.

Hydrogen can be extracted through electrolysis which uses an electrical current to divide the oxygen and hydrogen molecules in water; usually photovoltaics are used to create the electricity for this.

This is labeled as a carbon-free hydrogen extraction system.

The stored hydrogen is also used as an explosive gas for powering our car engines with hydrogen fuel cells, much like biofuel, but producing distilled H2O instead of CO2 and is also considered clean, as it neither consumes, nor produces CO2.

As the oxygen expended in electrolysis is recaptured during hydrogen expenditure, Hydrogen fuel cells do not contribute to the formation of O3 (the ozone layer). This cycle is therefore also labeled zero-emissions.

With all the biomass in production in the US today that is set aside specifically for biofuels (1.4 billion tons), only one third (30%) of our nations fuel consumption can be met at present, Purdue Universitys researchers (abstract) however feel their new liquid hydrocaron fuel design will triple that percentage (to 90%) leaving only a small margin of 10% that could be filled with waste biomass not yet extensively cultivated.

While biomass production would consume CO2 (releasing O2 into the atmosphere) and solar-power electrolysis would release oxygen, there would be enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the regeneration of the Ozone (O3).

H2CAR eradicates the ongoing threat our unnatural release of CO2 from fuel (especially fossil) currently poses, eliminating the need to control the overabundance of CO2 in our atmosphere through sequestration.

The sequestering of CO2 would not be sustainable by any means due to the energy spent over the long-term in maintaining the gas under-stopper and monitored, below ground.

H2CAR is definitely a noticeable alternative to either hydrogen or electric cars because of the energy savings in the long-term, potential repair of the Ozone and as a self-reliant biofuel for our nation, right now.

H2CAR simply means the hydrogen extracted through solar-power electrolysis is blended with biomass (carbon) also in a gaseous state, then liquefied, producing a liquid hydrocarbon fuel (a super-biofuel:-) otherwise known as the Hybrid Hydrogen-Carbon Process.

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Chevrolet Volt is different from its ancestors, as it uses a lithium battery that is still as of yet not available for mass production, but very similar to those used in cell phones and laptopnotebook computers already; just a larger, heavier version. 400lbs!

Chevrolet Volt comes with one very interesting factor in the chasse that just blows previous electric cars out of the ocean.

It is versatile in such a way that different kinds of motors could more than easily be installed, not just one hybrid as usually made but as many as the consumer demands.

Chevrolet Volt goes out of the way to develop a more sustainable solution for our needs right now and yet still predict that not everyone is going to be looking for the same solution from state to state.

And yet most consumers are sure to be obsessed with the sports style and a price of Chevrolet Volt that even competes domestically against other commuter automotives, but with sustainable solutions not as of yet even fathomed till now.

The current electric/gasoline hybrid that is in the works and already under tests, is not yet available to the public, merely because of the lithium batteries, which need an industry for such sizes, but it is an industry that GM has taken the risk to launch, even before foreign competitors.

Quote: GM hasn’t given a date when consumers can buy the Volt because the advanced lithium-ion batteries needed to power the vehicle — similar to technology used in cell phones– are still years from widespread use in automobiles… “In the end, this is all going to be about delivering on these products,” Wagoner said.

This specific hybrid motor by GM, designed exclusively for the average American patriot, will get 150 miles to the gallon, of which, 40 of those 150 miles can be spent without consuming a single drop of the black blood of the earth.

After intense research, GM discovered, that most Americans only need a mere 40 miles to drive all day long on weekdays during working hours and with a mere six hour charge over night, that means that it is possible to cut down on our nations transportation CO2 emissions to the point of a possible Ozone recovery within just a few years of widespread purchase!

Of course, not everyone commutes less than 40 miles a day, lots of people like to travel across this great beautiful nation of ours from time to time, yet most do not want to use machines that destroy the sensitive ecology we so proudly boast, which is the main reason why GM has done something extraordinary.

Quote: One particularly clever feature about the Volt is its E-Flex System, which is an architecture that’s designed to accommodate different types of engines. The three-cylinder installed in this show car can run on gasoline or E85, which is a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. But instead, a diesel could be fitted. Even one that runs on bio-diesel. Or a hydrogen-powered fuel cell.

Reaching speeds of up to 100 miles an hour guarantee more safety on the road, but still allow for that super racecar style that Americans prefer, Chevrolet Volt by GM is an elite gamble, one that could change the face of our nation, starting from within our own economy

Chevrolet Volt is a resolution for a new year of automotive excellence and overall, an audacious response to the cry for a more sustainable patriotic brand name; GM our nations elite.

Tesla Motors has invented a sports car that is not merely a high performance automotive on the track, but also out on the road, reaching 0 to 6 in under 4 seconds, better than even a Porsche 911.

For urban use, the Tesla Roadster is perfect, especially for fast transportation. The Roadster will last all day on a single charge and can be recharged nightly, while you sleep.

On a single charge, Tesla Roadster, the first car produced by Tesla Motors will endure 250 miles wide. This high-performance electric vehicle gets around 1 cent to the mile after doing the books and has one ofthe largest lithium battery designs in the world for the job it does.

Reaching double the speed limit allowed by the United States, Tesla Motors premier design for 2006 is in high demand among the social elite of our country for being both emissions free as well as beautiful and fast.

As a mission, Tesla Motors has lived up to their goal as a company that sells high-performance and super-efficient electric sports cars with not a single compromise.

Style, handling, advanced technology, acceleration, and the latest in high-performance, Tesla Roadster is the elite in todays electric vehicles, your passion is now sustainable and environmentally ethical

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