Sustainable Transportation

Type of Transportation	Project
Land
Human powered vehicles	Recumbent bicycles the National Bicycle Greenway
	Busycle
Draft Animals	Draft Horse Journal American Mule Association Draft Animals Oklahoma Virginia Draft Horse and Mule Association more links ...
Solar powered vehicles	Solar Utility Vehicle an educational program for science and vocational skills training using an interdisciplinary project-centered lesson plan in combination with internet based distance learning.
	Tonatiuh, the Mexican Solar Race Car The 1996 World Solar Challenge The Great Southern International Sunrace in Australia.
	SunRayce '95, a race of university teams from the USA, Canada, and Mexico. • Parade • Flag-bearers running • All together • Start Line • On the Road • Jorge • Poster
	SMUD has developed a solar charging station for electric vehicles. If the public utility has a black-out, plug your house into your car at night!
	Solar Cycling. "With the combination of solar and human power, there is no limit to ... where [solar cycles] can take us. Both your pedaling and the sunshine propel solar/human powered vehicles... with an electric motor and solar electric panels (PV), coupled with storage batteries ...." Commercially available Solar Bicycles.
Wind powered vehicles	American Kitefliers Association North American Buggy Championships. Information about competitions. Buggies pulled by kites. Check 'em out! North American Land Sailing Association (NALSA)
Solar powered trains	Solar Ultralight Rail Solar-electric rail is a smokeless, noiseless rail transit system based on recent advances in solar racing car technology.
Water
Sailing vessels	The 2003 America's Cup regattas brought the world's best and fastest high tech sailing ships to compete in New Zealand, but none more light and exotic than the yacht which flew a kite sail spinnaker designed by KiteShip USA during the Louis Vuitton Cup trials, to stun the yacht racing world. Here KiteShip USA is flying the OutLeader™ kite on the Hauraki Gulf in Auckland, New Zealand during a break in the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup regatta. Kiteship Speedsailing
	Microship, is the successor to Steve Robert's BEHEMOTH, the computerized, networked, teched-out recumbent bicycle. The Microship project is a high-tech multihull with an extensive network of embedded control systems, a satellite Internet link, console Macintosh, ham radio, 1080 watts of solar panels, deployable kayaks, self-trailering capability, on-board video production, and whole new levels of technomadic gizmology.
Solar Powered Boats	Tamarack Electric Boats Transatlantic21 Solar Ships for the new Millennium by Theodor Schmidt, TO Engineering, Steffisburg, Switzerland Solarschiffe von Jörg Albrecht (in German) Solar Navigator UK’s biggest bespoke solar boat launches in London The Global Green Cat, a solar (PV) powered catamaran. Website formerly at http://www.greencat.co.uk/. Current link would be appreciated. (Story, Portuguese) Malt's Mermaid Listing of several e-boats Potential platforms for solar boats: Duffy Electric Boat Co, ElectraCraft and The Electric Boat Association of the Americas
	Sydney Solar Sailor. Now this is something to see! A combination of sails (rigid, like wings) covered with solar cells. (Original model at right.)
	Solar Craft A very energy-efficient water craft developed in Hawaii.
	Sol10 Sun Cruiser, a Solar-Powered Personal Boat The SunCruiser is available from Hammacher
Air
Solar powered lighter-than-air craft	Solar Airships
	The Airborne World Solar Challenge
Solar powered sailplanes (winged aircraft)	Solar Impulse The Pathfinder, a solar-powered flying wing developed by AeroVironment for NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology program. Other solar plane projects: • Solar Impulse • Solaire II • Helios Solar Plane • Helios Solar Plane (large photo)
	Solar Flight
Space
The ultimate: Solar powered spacecraft	Solar Sails

contact us updated 2006 February 1