Hypercar is a concept vehicle that is part luxury sedan, part SUV, part eco-car, integrating many innovations. These cars will be running on the streets soon giving you upto 200mpg.

Features include:

• lightweight, durable, dent- and rust-proof composite body;
• a fuel-cell powered hybrid-electric drivesystem using gaseous hydrogen fuel;
• powerful onboard information network;
• no paint shop required (permanent color molded in);
• emits only clean water;
• exceeds government safety specifications

Research

The Hypercar Center at the Rocky Mountain Institute, in a project led by "reformed" physicist and author Amory Lovins and coordinated with a handful of other designers, analyzed the modern car and discovered that it is so heavy and awkward that it expends most of its energy moving itself around. In fact, a car wastes between 80 and 85 percent of the energy it generates, because of its weight and inefficiently run engine. To accelerate, the engine must be so big that it can use only a small fraction of its power for actual driving. For every five to seven gallons of fuel, only one gallon's worth of propulsion energy gets to the wheels of a car. The 15 to 20 percent of fuel energy that does reach the wheels is used up in three ways: about a third gets lost accelerating and braking during city driving, another third in air friction, and the last third in heating the road and the tires. Of the energy delivered to the wheels, 95 percent moves the car and only the remaining 5 percent moves the driver. Thus only 1 percent of the gasoline moves you to your destination.

To improve car efficiency, Lovins and other designers started from the wheels and worked toward the engine. They created an entirely new car -- the ultralight, ultraslippery, hybrid electric "hypercar," now in various stages of development by two dozen different companies around the world. The hypercar consists mostly of a superlight carbon-fiber body (safer than steel because it absorbs crash energy better), a scooter-sized engine, a gas turbine or fuel cell providing a constant source of electricity, and variable-speed reversible electric motors that can recapture braking energy for reuse after temporary storage in a battery or super flywheel. Quiet, safe, nearly 95 percent less polluting than a conventional car (engines running at a constant speed reduce emissions by 90 percent and such a light, low-drag car needs roughly one-tenth as large an engine as a regular car), the hypercar gets between 100 and 200 miles per gallon.