New Car by Hybrid Technologies: 220+ MPG, Hybrid and Electric Versions

It looks like a Porsche Carrera GT with the split rear window from a '63 Corvette. Not that there's anything wrong with that- it looks nice. :-)

It looks so much sexier than a Prius - bring it on!

Well, it will be nice if they make it to production.

It looks much better than the supercar currently for sale by www.hybridtechnologies.com for $100,000, that's for sure.

Has hybrid technologies actually sold any of those cars? The electric Mini was featured on the cover of the Christmas Sam's Club catalog.

The problem with this type of vehicle and I fault Tesla as well, is that they are not designed for the people that are pressing this technology. I want an all electric hybrid that will be able to handle the forest service roads. This car by Hybrid Technologies would not hold up driving through 6 - 8 inches of snow or driving 30 miles an hour on a washboard road.

This is an open challenge to any maker of an electric car, to build a car similar to the Subaru Outback. A car/wagon that will get me out to nature without contributing to the destruction of it. I don't want a sporty looking car designed for speed, I want a utility vehicle, with a hatch, that I can sleep in while camping when the lightning gets too close. I want a rugged wagon that will withstand the elements, not a sportster. I don't know of too many treehuggers, that are into speedy vehicles, but every treehugger that I know is pulling for electric cars to come to the mainstream. Cater too your crowd, please. I don't feel that I am alone in this subject.

Looks really good, but can anyone afford it?

I would like to volunteer to drive the car around the country in order to help promote it. It's just my little sacrifice for the earth. =]

I suspect they are just generating hype to sell stock. To bad hype is not a power source. There seems to be a lot of it these days.

"I don't know of too many treehuggers, that are into speedy vehicles...Cater too your crowd, please."

I don't know of too many treehuggers that are willing to drop six-figures for a car. Those people are usually into speedy vehicles.

It would cost about the same for these companies to build an electric family sedan or an electric compact hatchback as it does to build a sports car, but family sedan and hatchback buyers can't afford them, so they build cars that people that can.

One other thing, If the above is an electric car, why does it have exhaust tips?

Lamborghini said recently that they are not interested in having a green image, since their cars are rarely used by their buyers, and when they do, it's often for a few hours.

Under this light, an electric supercar doesn't need to have a big range. Maybe this is the way future supercars can exist in a world with scarce oil and more stict laws about pollution.

Hybrid Technology--- i won't hold my breath till this one becomes real... these are the folks who "sold" the $100K mini, a $100K electric chopper motorcycle, and other electric conversions (but instead of a $10K EV conversion they charge$90L extra....). This is nothing but vapor fellas, they are as bad (if not worse) than Zap in the fact that they do this pretty much only to raise the price of their stocks. HT is not going to change the world....

Why does an electric car have 4 exhaust pipes coming out the back? Hybrid Technologies is such a scam. Have they sold anything yet? What about the super-lattice lithium ion battery they claimed they developed.? Where is it? This company is a stock market fraudulator. Don't believe me? Call them up. Ask how you can buy a car.

I think it is going to be a while before you see all-electric larger vehicles. The big problem with electric- in fact, the reason we chose gas over electric 100+ years ago- is that batteries store less energy per volume/weight than gas. These cars are small and light because if they were bigger they couldn't get sufficient range.
The first larger electric cars are likely going to be serial hybrids, with gas engines for longer range, much like the Volt will be. When batteries/other energy storage/ production of synthetic fuels gets good enough we'll see cars of all sizes using these techs. For now, lets be glad we can get a small and quite awesome car to 180 miles per charge.

I think that Treehugger shouldn't be publishing these sorts of blatant stock scams. "We might have a working prototype real soon now" is more of an effort to borrow more money from investors and artificially inflate a company's value than it is a real news story. See also the Zap-X (which exists only on the back of a napkin), and ZENN ultracapacitors which have been "in the works" with "real prototype target dates" that were "about 6 months away" for the past two years.

"Why does an electric car have 4 exhaust pipes coming out the back?"

If you read the article, you'll see that there will also be a hybrid version.

But it could be purely cosmetic too..

Wouldn't it be nice if someone could just make a nice little car about the size of the Fit, that let me travel about 100 miles per charge at about 60mph?
You know, something that was designed to go from 0-60 in about 10 seconds, and carry the groceries for about $25k.

Instead we get super sportscars for 100k that can carry 2 people. Yep, that will help the world.

KenGirard,

I hear you, but I think the whole point of making supercars is that right now we can't make good mass market electric cars for 25k.

Surprisingly to some people, making an economy car and a supercar is almost as hard for automakers. They each almost have as many moving parts and technologies, they each must be as reliable as possible, and they both require large capital investments to build factories.

So right now the only way to make money is by selling 100k electric cars. But that will help finance the cheaper models, just like cell phones were big expensive bricks in the 80s and 90s, and now they are almost free.

Oh good, just what we need to save the world. This will feed the poor, stop wars and clean air and water at the same time while producing energy. Here we go again...

"Oh good, just what we need to save the world. This will feed the poor, stop wars and clean air and water at the same time while producing energy. Here we go again.."

Come on, please!

On the list of things that we need to eliminate to make a better world, early electric cars are very near the bottom.

I'm waiting for a production car in which each wheel hub IS an electric motor/brake, power distribution is computer-controlled w/ real-time feedback for optimum efficiency and traction, the central power plant (generator) is driven by a very small turbine that can run at a constant high rpm and run on a variety of fuels, and a large capacitor is the power buffer.

There are a few rather short-sighted comments here. I think cars like this are doing the groundwork for the mainstream uptake of non-ICE vehicles, in terms of both technology and public perception. Some commenters are effectively saying that as it doesn't fit their particular needs it's pointless- comments that could have been levelled at plenty of other technologies at their time of introduction, PCs and cell phones being obvious examples. (KenGirard, I'm looking in your direction here.)

Of course whether this particular car ever sees the light of day is another matter but the point still stands...

Lastly:

"Oh good, just what we need to save the world. This will feed the poor, stop wars and clean air and water at the same time while producing energy. Here we go again..."

Maybe my humour filter is playing up but I'm not sure what point is being made here- that anything that doesn't solve all the world's problems at a stroke isn't worth bothering with...?

I must agree with most of the comments here that imply that this car misses the mark. For those who don't know... this is the mark...

A vehicle that carries 4 passengers. (Although a 1 or 2 passenger commuter version would be nice).
It must be electric.
It must be practical.
It must be able to carry a removable generator when necesary for longer trips.
It must be able to be charged at home by "plugging it in".
It must cost less than $25k

My vision is a 2000 pound aerodynamic car that uses NIMH batteries capable of 50 miles per charge at 45 MPH. It would be able to be charged in my garage by 110v AND have a removable generator that simply drops in the trunk and runs on gasoline (or whatever). The generator would only be installed for trips longer than the batteries could supply alone.

The Toyota Prius misses the mark by being a gas powered vehicle with electric assist. That's WAS fine when gas was $2.50. Now that we know $5.00 gas is coming - a redesign is necssary. That involves making "hybrid" vehicles more "electric" and less "gas".

As I stated above - the solution is an electric car that can carry it's own generator when necessary for long trips. Since it must be capable of being charged on 110v household voltage, and the fact that almost all "off the shelf" electric generators produce 110v - it should have a 110v to "whatever volts it needs" converter on board. What do you think?

I agree with the people talking about the price of these cars.Most working class people need a green car that cost less than $30,000. Especially people like me that have 4 children and a mortgage to pay for.

Just another carrot.

@willbyrne

Agree completely with your simple spec. Come on manufacturers - make what the people want - you may even sell some....

This is a first step, not a solution. Be patient, you'll get your electric family sedan. In order to sell it, the first of the flock needs to be sexy and no one can deny this car is sexy.

@Daryl Edington, i think the Xebra Solar option meets a lot of your requirements: http://www.zapworld.com/electric-vehicles/electric-cars/xebra-xero-solar-option

haven't we learned we cant trust car companies?

these companies stall the electric car while the big auto companies keep pumping out SUVs. Like Gm going from Gas friendly to gas free... all BS

If you want an electric car, build your own or buy one from AC Propulsion.

If you wanna learn how, we are converting a VW Golf at www.miamiEVproject.com

I'm loving this technology, and i personally think this tech. is the future! That is why i have bought lot of their share and i'm using warren Buffett's methods, plus i'm only 19 years old. GOOD LUCK -HYBR-.

This is weird. Been flapping my gums since 1980 about Edwin V. Gray's "pulsed capacitor discharge electric engine," wrote to dozens of corporations, citizens' groups, political agencies and representatives, and very little ever seems to come of it. I don't expect quick changes but 1980 was almost 30 years ago. Now we have "ultracapacitors" and "carbon fiber structural beams and fuselage panels" (and RMI.org has a super-energy-efficient method of manufacturing car parts using carbon fiber composite materials). So, the "pulsed capacitor" electric engine of Edwin V. Gray, is now the "pulsed ultracapacitor" (ultracapacitors are in production at Maxwell Technologies--MXWL for you home gamers). And yet... when the high end companies such as Tesla Motors and others go to "all-electric" cars, they seem to always pull out the junk from General Electric Corporation, which has to move its "off the shelf" electric motors of course, so you can get them "for cheap." But what about the fact that the standard electric engine is a piece of junk, great as far as it goes, but not the best, is what I am talkin about. But engineers go on and on about 95 percent efficiency of the standard high quality electric motors of today, as if there is no way to boost the efficiency of any electric motor based system such as an electric car. However, Edwin V. Gray did indeed show the method of building super low-power-drain electric engines in 1975, providing super-hi-torque rotary power with super low power-drain, ideal and necessary for high efficiency electric cars trucks buses planes and Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft using turbofan, and/or possibly a hybrid with Seversky Ionocraft propulsion.

Anyway, i don't get it. Edwin V. Gray did invent this thing, he won the Inventor of the Year Award in 1975, presented by then Gov. Reagan of California, yet his invention is ignored even by the cognoscenti. It was estimated the Gray engine could power a car across the USA on a single charge of the lead-acid batteries of the 1970s; so perhaps today we can do even better with lithium-ion or lithium iron phosphate batteries or vanadium batteries, carbon nanotube batteries, MIT LEES batteries, or silicon fiber batteries, or whatever.

Some have raved that the Gray engine is using "vacuum energy" or "zero point energy" but in fact, whatever it is using, you can say very simply, without all the mystification bull, it is pulsing picosecond flashes of electrical static discharge to the capacitors or ultracapacitors arrayed around the stator of a rotor/stator configuration, in timed pulses, such that the hi voltage bursts develop very hi torque on the central axis of the rotor, and due to timing of the engine via computer etc, this can be optimized for efficiency; and without much brain at all luckily for me, one can see this is a superior technology as compared to the standard electric engine which develops a cylindrical "constant" EM flux field requiring constant high power input to maintain, in which the rotor turns; there is some timing or "primitive" on/off switching of the electromagnet, but maintaining a cylindrical electrical field in this standard engine is not at all the same as the Gray engine method of using timed picosecond bursts sequentially as the rotor turns within the stator; this is more akin to lightning bursts or flashes at precise intervals around the rotor as it gains speed and torque. this is superefficient. This is the way I understand it-- if I am wrong, well I hope I have the general view correct or usable by those who know the technical engineering correctly.

The Gray engine is said to utilize the power of "St Elmo's Fire" similar to the "Northern Lights" coronal discharges in the high atmosphere, i.e., plasma energy. (Plasma energy is now being used for waste transmutation by Startech (STHK home gamers)-- Plasma is the 4th state of matter, we have solid, liquid, gas, and plasma, each state of matter being higher energy forms of the same thing. A plasma is a remarkable thing, and we are only beginning to see the efficiency of it. The Sun operates using plasma, we use plasma in attempts to produce sustained fusion energy for electricity on Earth, and in some new plasma light bulbs (Luxim? Plasmon?) about 100 times as efficient as the newest best LEDs. So plasma "obsoletes the leading edge" which is precisely what we must do ASAP or 30 years before yesterday.

I believe the blacklightpower.com techologies are based on new knowledge and discoveries by Dr. Randell Mills, of how to engineer plasma, or something akin to it; this will "replace everything we got" with extremely high power density advanced hydrogen "hydrino" fuel-cell types of electrical generators.

Meahwhile we have to put up with penny-stock Ford Motor Co. bragging about 25 mpg, same as Henry Ford was getting in 1920. And $100,000 to $500,000 or $3 million cars (What-Ever!!) taking all night to recharge for a hundred miles of luxury driving, not a thing I want to use to get groceries or deal with the road ruts in the Northeast USA.

Quick recharge time is promised for the new upcoming (still waiting) Zap-X Crossover SUV luxury vehicle from ZAP Motors at zapworld.com . They talk about 10 minute recharge time for this Lotus Engineering designed vehicle seating 6 adults, up to 150 mph, with 350 mile range, 0-60 mph acceleration time is something like 6 seconds? something like that. but see, we dont need this to be so much of a supercar, nobody needs this, in fact, i dont know if i have 5 friends or family who can get along long enough to use such a vehicle, i need a 1 or 2 or maybe 3 person vehicle, not much more, and room for groceries and some stuff. And it has to be able to handle roads that are not up to par.

in actual fact we need VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) to get rid of roads and bridges..

What happens to electric cars (the batteries) when parked overnight but are not plugged in? I live in wisconsin and it can get pretty cold in january and february