Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Ms. Littleton 03/13/2006

How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com

Clean Cities Alternative Fuel Vehicle Fleet Buyer’s Guide http://www.fleets.doe.gov

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (Dept. of Energy) http://www.eren.doe.gov

A Student’s Guide to Alternative Fuel Vehicles http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/transportation/index.html

The Alternative Fuels Data Center (Office of Transportation Technologies) http://www.afdc.doe.gov/

Hybrid - Cars that have both a gasoline powered engine and an electric engine. These cars do not require recharging. Do not confuse these with vehicles which are solely electric which do require recharging.

Hybrid Cars www.hybridcars.com

Fuel—Cell (hydrogen) — Cars that have a fuel-cell instead of an engine that produces energy by “burning” hydrogen as a fuel.

Fuel Cells 2000 http://www.fuelcells.org/

Electric — Cars that have no engine, only a battery which requires recharging through an external electrical source. Do not confuse these with hybrid cars which are half gasoline powered and half electric powered. Kushan’s Page of Electric and Solar Cars http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Factory/1723/

The Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington DC

http://www.evadc.org/ev_faq.html

Natural Gas — Vehicles which run on compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas. Conventional vehicles can be converted to run on this fuel.

The Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition http://www.ngvc.org/ngv/ngvc.nsf

Biodiesel (Vegetable Oil) — Vehicles can be converted to run on — you guessed it! — used (or new) vegetable oil.

Veggie Van http://www.veggievan.org/

Grease Car http://www.greasecar.com/

The Official Site of the National Biodiesel Board http://www.biodiesel.org/

Ethanol — These vehicles burn a fuel primarily composed of ethanol as a fuel Do not confuse this with the use of ethanol as an additive to conventional vehicles.