Car of the future
By: a Nova production by New Wrinkle, Inc. ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; written and directed by Joseph Seamans ; produced by Joseph Seamans [and] Janet Driscoll Smith
Contributors: Magliozzi, Tom; Magliozzi, Ray; Lithgow, John, 1945-; New Wrinkle, Inc; WGBH Educational Foundation; WGBH Video (Firm)
Series: EES 335 (NU course); EES 336 (NU course)
Publisher: WGBH Boston Video
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781593758189
Subjects: Alternative fuel vehicles; Design and construction; Automobiles; Technological innovations
Other titles: Engineering for the environment;  Becoming green : ; Nova (Television program)
Description: "Tom Magliozzi and brother Ray take a light-hearted but shrewd look at America's four-wheeled future.   As "Click and Clack" they explore everything from a glitzy Detroit auto show to the earnest homebuilders of Boston's AltWheels Festival, from a hydrogen-powered bus fleet in Iceland to a green think tank in Colorado.  They check out hybrids that plug into a household outlet and an electronic sports car that goes 0-to-60 in 4 seconds.  Tom and Ray meet experts in biofuels and lithium batteries, mixing sharp observation, slapstick, and probing interviews.  With soaring prices at the pump and worries about the global greenhouse, it's no laughing matter. But the car guys turn an expert, comic eye on the promise and pitfalls of tomorrow's auto tech."--Container.
Notes: Originally broadcast on the television program Nova.

Special features: Access to the Car of the Future web site.

Special features: Access to the Car of the future Web site -- Scene selection.

Director of photography, Mark Knobil ; editor, David Cohen ; music, Andreas Bj©ırk.

Hosted by Tom and Ray Magliozzi of NPR's Car Talk ; narrator, John Lithgow.

Not rated.

DVD-video; NTSC: region 1; 16:9 anamorphic widescreen; Dolby digital.

Closed-captioned ; described video.
Table of contents: title: Petroleum; title: Rush hour in Reykjavik; title: The hypercar and Tesla; title: Whose responsibility?