Vehicles

Mark Goodstein, a .com venturer newly on board the X Prize Foundation of space tourism fame, talked today about planning for a new prize for manufacturers of very energy-efficient cars. The American Solar Energy Association has a new editorial on how a more modest transition to smaller cars is a necessary first step to reducing US oil demand, with a reasonable if still slightly optimistic discussion of biofuels. The last issue of Solar Today had a article on whether photovoltaic strips make sense for car roofs.