Transportation

Will hydrogen power the future?  We won't know for sometime, but Honda's FCX Clarity is a bet in that direction.  The FCX Clarity is America's first production model vehicle designed expressly to accomodate power by a fuel cell.  The car also happens to be the first vehicle to meet California’s low emission vehicle standards, well in advance of regulatory requirements.

The future of vehicle design is always influenced by extreme prototypes that push the boundaries - either of speed, efficiency, power, or endurance.  Recently, just such a prototype set a new precedent for what is possible with wind powered vehicles and in doing so is helping to advance transportation technology.  Dubbed "Greenbird", this high-tech marvel is two vehicles in one: a land craft and an ice craft, powered only by the wind.  Its breakthrough design allows it to travel up to 5 times the real wind speed in ideal conditions.

Automated public bike systems have been implemented in several cities, but BIXI has taken it one step further.  BIXI has designed a system with features like bike to bike docking to automated pay stations that can be easily integrated into any city.  The system includes a portable modular bike dock which allows easy installation at any location without excavation.  A solar-powered pay station accepting credit cards or BIXI cards wirelessly relays the number of bikes present and records bike usage.  The bikes are even specially equipped with front and tail lights, chain covers to improve int

By taking an already useful and unique technology in the self-balancing gyroscope associated with the standing Segway, the P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility & Accessibility) is combining clean, emission free electric power with a sit-down, driving vehicle.  The car's small size means it can fit into any and every parking space in the city as well as cause less over-all driving congestion in the city due to maneuverability. If mass-produced, the P.U.M.A. could become a cost effective way that any city could change the layout of its city scape.