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 […]

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 […]

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August 1st, 2007 (Los Angeles, CA): The Society for Sustainable Mobility (SSM) officially announces its intention to compete in the Automotive X-Prize (AXP) contest. SSM will have to raise $5 Million USD in public support to develop the 100 MPGe vehicle. AXP has an aggressive schedule that […]

PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 29th, 2007 (Santa Monica, CA): SSM is pleased to announced our sponsorship program for our test/demo vehicle. This vehicle will be retrofitted and utilized by Los Angeles Integration Team to test our state-of-the-art, patent pending Kernel™ electric drivetrain. This same electric drivetrain architecture will compete in the upcoming Automotive […]

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[SSM’s notes: The comments here are referring to the Draft Competition Guideline posted by the X-Prize Foundation on April 02, 2007. Our Mechanical Engineering Specialist, Bill, and I attended (via teleconference) the Automotive X-Prize kick-off meeting at CalTech and had reviewed the draft rules in detailed and posted our comments online.
Before we start, I would like to thank the […]