Society for Sustainable Mobility

October 25, 2007 (Los Angeles, CA): Last weekend, thousands of people, including many alternative transportation businesses, gathered at the Barker Hangar of the Santa Monica Airport for the second annual Alternative Fuel Transportation Expo (Alt Car Expo) http://www.altcarexpo.com/ . SSM also showcased our latest concept drawings of the Kernel™ Crossover vehicle, as well as some […]

October 24th (Los Angeles, CA): Many of our members and affiliates in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas have been threaten and/or displaced by the wildfires that are happening all over Southern California. (Photo Courtesy: Jeff Turner)

October 17, 2007 (Los Angeles, CA): Good News! We are almost ready for the Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The PDR is an important milestone in our engineering plan and it marks the 25% completion of our CDV1 Project. Although the review comes almost 4 months late from the original schedule, it is crucial for our […]

October 06, 2007 Culver City, CA: As the date of the second annual Santa Monica Alt Car Expo (http://www.altcarexpo.com/) draws near, SSM members in the Los Angeles area are also gearing up and preparing for one of the most important events for alternative fuel businesses in the Southern California area. SSM, a nonprofit alternative fuel vehicle designer […]

Riley Spencer will lead a very important undertaking to create the technical library, tentatively named the “Sustainable Mobility Knowledge Base”. The name suggests, the library will covers everything that is related to our mission: sustainable mobility, and how SSM can integrate these technologies into our product line. The technical library will speed the development and discovery […]

Visit us on our new Squidoo “Lens”. http://www.squidoo.com/ssm-osgv/
Recognizing the importance of online social networks, we’ve implemented a homepage on Squidoo, which could potentially bring in significant amount of visitors. If you are interested in volunteering and maintaining this site, please let us know immediately. Thanks.

August 3rd, 2007 (Los Angeles, CA): A lot has happened in the past few months. It must have been our most busy quarter ever. I am glad to tell you that the interests in OSGV is really taking off! Our web server has registered 1200 to 1800 page hits per day. And, the number of […]

About SSM and OSGV
The Society for Sustainable Mobility (SSM) is a “borderless” non-profit Automotive Engineering group whose focus is to apply Open Design philosophy to revolutionize the development and deployment of eco-friendly transportation. Established in 2005, SSM expanded its charter from the original “Open Source Green Vehicle” (OSGV) Project to include other forms of sustainability […]

June 11, 2007 Santa Monica, CA: The Human Interface Computer (HIC), though non-safety critical, is an important piece of equipment of our new Kernel electric vehicle. In addition to the Vehicle Management Computer (VMC) and the motor controllers, the HIC serves as the primary visual and audio interface between the human users and the vehicle. […]