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Back to: Rocky Mountain Institute--Home Page  -- Select A Page -- The Hypercar® Concept Advanced Automotive News Hypercar, Inc Hypercar® Chronology—Advanced Automotive Milestones Hypercar® Resources Transportation Links New & Notable New RMI Publication (23 March 2004) T04-01, Hypercars®, Hydrogen, and the Automotive Transition Lightweighting is the key to making vehicles superefficient but safe. In this invited technical review paper in the International Journal of Vehicle Design, RMI's CEO Amory Lovins and Hypercar, Inc.'s VP Engineering David Cramer explain why, using as an example Hypercar's 2000 virtual design of the Revolution 99-mpg SUV.   How to reduce the environmental impacts of transportation? Least cost end use. As outlined in our book Natural Capitalism (www.naturalcapitalism.org), RMI knows that least-cost end-use includes the significant improvement of public transportation, as well as alternatives to actual transportation, such as intelligent community design, smart growth, and telecommuting among others. On this note, our Green Development Services unit works on making communities and real-estate developments less mobility-hungry and more transit-friendly. Many organizations already advocate these issues, which RMI fully supports, and you can find useful links to some of these organizations on our transportation links page. For when we have to use a car, however, a big part of the least-cost end-use solution, RMI believes, is the Hypercar® strategy—a radically cleaner and more efficient vehicle concept that we developed from 1991 to 1999. The strategy would radically decrease our need for imported fuel supplies and thereby increase our national energy security—drilling in ANWR would become unnecessary. At RMI we get many inquiries asking us which is the most efficient car to buy today whilst we wait for Hypercar® vehicles to become readily available. RMI does not keep this information, but many other organizations do. The best site to find the answer to this question is the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE)'s Green Book (wwww.greenercars.com). Information on converting your car to an alternative fuel system can be found at the Alternative Fuel Data Center (AFDC).   End-Use Least-Cost Fuel Supply and Security The Hypercar® Concept—Explains everything you could possibly want to know about Hypercar® vehicles: how they work, their advantages, their implications for the environment and industry. Fiberforge—Another informative site, especially for those seeking investment opportunities in the high-tech automotive field. Hypercar® Chronology—Advanced Automotice Milestones—Shows and a timeline of recent advanced automotive developments. Advanced Automotive News—Articles covering a broad range of alternative transportation technology and fuel-related issues. Hypercar® Resources (useful articles related to our work) Transportation Links (to useful websites)   Hypercar® is a registered trademark of Hypercar, Inc. (www.hypercar.com). Used with permission.   General Information Inquiries | Privacy Statement | Report Technical Problems ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: Abundance by Design™ rmi.org is published by Rocky Mountain Institute. 1739 Snowmass Creek Road | Snowmass, CO 81654-9199 | Ph: 970.927.3851 Copyright 1999–2006. All Rights Reserved. thomfish@rmi.org Other RMI web sites include: Winning the Oil Endgame (www.oilendgame.com) Small Is Profitable (www.smallisprofitable.org) Natural Capitalism (www.naturalcapitalism.org) The Community Energy Opportunity Finder (www.energyfinder.org) National Energy Policy Initiative (www.nepinitiative.org) Powered by Site Management Console