V-Vehicles resurfaces as Next Autoworks in California — Autoblog

V-Vehicles started making noises back in 2006 about building an environmentally friendly car that ran on compressed natural gas, and doing it here in the U.S. The company is backed by oilman billionaire T. Boone Pickens and the VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the latter of which also backs Fisker. Its head designer is Tom Matano of Mazda Miata and RX-7 fame.

via autoblog.com

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Hybrids we have seen and understand.. More are coming.. and even bigger ones from toyota in the Prius line.

EVs are on the way.. and probably rolling down an assembly line in small numbers right now for the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf launches this quarter.

But I keep seeing Fuel Cell, Hydrogen, and in this case, CNG cars showing up in the road maps of different makers.

It will be a number of years until we see mature versions of these new technologies (Prius just celebrated 10 years since launch) and years beyond that before we know who has won.