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                                                                      Exhibit 31

                              CERTIFICATION

I, Holly Roseberry, President, Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial
Officer of Hybrid Technologies, Inc., certify that:

1.   I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of Hybrid
     Technologies, Inc.;

2.   Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue
     statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to
     make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such
     statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by
     this quarterly report;

3.   Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
     information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all
     material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash
     flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this
     quarterly report;

4.   The registrant's other certifying officer and I are responsible for
     establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined
     in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the registrant and have:

     a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures , or caused such
disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to
ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its
consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities,
particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;

     (b) designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such
internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision,
to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting
and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles;

     (c) evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and
     procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the
effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the
period covered by this report based onsuch evaluation; and

     (d) disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's intternal
control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most
recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth quarter in the case of an annual
report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially
affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based
         on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial
reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the
registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent
functions):

     (a) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably
likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process,
summarize and report financial information; and

     (b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
         employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal
control over financial reporting.


Date: June 14, 2005                                  /s/ Holly Roseberry
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                                                   Holly Roseberry
                                                   (President and Director,
                                                   Chief Executive Officer
                                                   and Principal Financial
                                                   Officer)