This web site is focused on the development of a simpler, less complex, efficient, and affordable automobile, with a target price of $3000!

And it is to meet most people's basic transportation needs - nothing fancy.

This forum is different in that we are actually a workgroup developing a car that we will build.

Our Prototype-1 has all aluminum tubing welded chassis and suspension linkage, a small engine coupled to a DC motor for power generation to charge batteries that supply 2 electric motors which also do some regenerative braking, 4-wheel disk brakes, and a very simple body. It can seat 4, 3 or 2 plus lots of storage space (as for delivery or maintenance applications), but it will definitely NOT be expensive and short on space like the "smart car" (or the 250mpg(1l/100km) VW-1 shown here). We have a modest goal of 100mpg initially... afterwards working on the design to move towards a 200 mpg hybrid.

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Excerpt from PopularMechanics' "50 MOST USEFUL INVENTIONS" article:
The fuel cell goes back more than 150 years, and the first FUEL CELL VEHICLE--a 20-hp tractor--is built in 1959. But it isn't until 1993 that a Canadian company, Ballard Power Systems, demonstrates the first zero-emissions fuel cell bus. Since then, progress toward an economically viable fuel cell car has remained slow but steady. Likewise, Ferdinand Porsche wins his class at the 1902 Exelberg Hill-Climb in Austria in a front-wheel-drive HYBRID-ELECTRIC CAR. But it is almost a century later, in 1997, that Toyota surprises its rivals by unveiling the hybrid Prius to Japanese consumers. It takes nearly three years for the Prius to reach North America.

(mankind moves slowly and timidly, as the inventors watch what those with money do with it)