More Choices Than Ever Before - the Alternative Cars of the Future

                              America imports about 70 percent of its oil, costing over $700 billion dollars a year. This endure summer, Al Gore challenged America to "commit to bearing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable activity and absolutely apple-pie carbon-free sources aural 10 years." We apperceive that the activity crisis will not break itself; therefore, we accept to do what we can to ability this ambition and chargeless America from its dependency. This year, the Santa Monica AltCar Expo featured about one hundred activity able cars as able-bodied as approved new cleaner technologies. Attendees were able to ride and drive abounding of the cars on display, acceptance them to see and feel the difference. For those of you who absent out, the Expo will aswell be captivated at the Palmers Event Center in Austin, Texas October 17 and 18.

 Pedal Your Activity Savings A abundant way to assure the ambiance while befitting adaptable is to ride a bike instead of driving. One of the cars on affectation at the Expo was trioBike, a bike that aswell doubles as a adventurer developed and activated with cooperation from the Danish National Consumer Agency. It is affirmed to be one of the safest carrierbikes available. It is lightweight, appulse resistant, blaze and acclimate proof, and simple to maneuver.

The actual acclimated is a sandwich architecture of UV connected and exhaustion formed ABS. It is 40 times stronger than a bike helmet and can authority up to 175lbs, or two accouchement amid the ages of aught and nine years old. The adventurer is able with adequate seats, a sun adumbration and two five-point assurance belts. It aswell connects to the bike with two quick releases, demography about a minute to about-face the brakes and abstract or reattach. The car has its own different patented braking arrangement advised for affluence of use if braking and assembling. The trioBike is a absolute way to run bounded errands while demography the kids out and accepting exercise. You could aswell abstract the adventurer and yield the kids to the abundance and use it to authority advantage or just use the bike for ride. The New Volt Takes You Farther General Motors acclaimed its 100th altogether this ages with a new Extended-Range Electric Car (E-REV), the Chevrolet Volt aswell displayed at the Santa Monica AltCar Expo. Aerodynamics was one of the key motivations for the architecture of the Volt, abnormally back it plays a big role in active range.

 The 16-kWh lithium-ion array provides electricity for trips up to 40 miles. The array works with a gasoline/E85-powered engine architect that sustains charge. If the array is depleted, it can extend the car's ambit for hundreds of afar so consumers do not accept to anguish about active out of. Because of its charging technology, the Volt can be answerable in beneath than three hours on a 240v outlet. Moreover, GM estimates that the different arrangement alone costs two cents per mile while beneath gasoline- and emissions-free array power. The Volt is appointed for assembly at the end of 2010.