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Web Site Credits

Lauren Aguirre, Executive Editor
Rima Chaddha, Assistant Editor
Darcy Forlenza, Editorial Assistant
Liz Fox, Web Intern
Tyler Howe, Senior Designer
Brenden Kootsey, Senior Web Developer
David Levin, Assistant Editor
Susan K. Lewis, Editor
Melissa Salpietra, Editorial Assistant
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Anya Vinokour, Senior Designer
Li Wei, Designer

Special Thanks
Roy Nagel, Society of Automotive Historians
Denise Sins, National Automobile Museum, The Harrah Collection

Image Credits 
Car of the Future homepage
Image composite: (Tom and Ray in lab coats, Tom and Ray in car) photo by Joe Seamans, © 2008 WGBH Educational Foundation; (road through trees) ooyoo/istockphoto.com

Beyond Technology
Images: (David Greene) © 2008 WGBH Educational Foundation; (cars in traffic, hybrid in carpool lane, gas prices) © Tim McCaig/istockphoto.com; (oil barrels) © Omar Ariff/istockphoto.com; (corn) © Elena Elisseeva/istockphoto.com; (truck headlight) © Clayton Hansen/ istockphoto.com; (SUV wreckage) © Karen Mower/istockphoto.com; (gas pump) © Gordon Dixon/istockphoto.com

History's Innovative Autos
Images: (Turbine Car) © Bettmann/CORBIS; (Nucleon) © Ford Motor Company; (Stanley Steamer) © CORBIS; (Air Car One) Courtesy Air Car Access, www.aircaraccess.com; (1912 Baker Electric Car) Courtesy the National Automobile Museum, The Harrah Collection, Reno, NV; (Mixte) © Car Culture/Corbis; (Sunraycer) © Associated Press; (Model T) © Bettmann/CORBIS; (Electrovan) © GM Corp.

My Car of the Future
Images: (Electric Honda del Sol) Courtesy Larry Allen; (Current Eliminator V) Courtesy Dennis Berube; (Prius Hybrid and Electric Bike) Courtesy of Ken Bookstein; (GM EV1, Toyota RAV4EV, Ford Ranger EV) Courtesy Eugen Dunlap; (Natural Gas Honda Civic) Courtesy Rex Irby; (Eracer) Courtesy C. Michael Lewis; (Voltbuggy) Courtesy Mario; (BugE Personal Electric Transport) Courtesy Mark Murphy; (VegOil Mercedes) Courtesy Cynthia Shelton; (Toyota RAV4Evs) Courtesy Greg Simon & Heidi Locke Simon; (GEM eL Neighborhood Electric Vehicle) Courtesy Stan Teliczan & Kim Cohagan; (Stanley Steam Car) Courtesy Robert Wilhelm, Jr.; (Electrabishi) Courtesy Mike Willmon

Model of Efficiency
Today's Inefficient Cars
Images: (Amory Lovins) photo by Joe Seamans, © 2008 WGBH Educational Foundation; (traffic) © EGDigital/istockphoto.com; (pumping gas) © Skip ODonnell/istockphoto.com; (wheel) © Tomas Bercic/istockphoto.com; (Henry Ford in Model T) © Bettmann/CORBIS; (1933 Ford coup, 1971 Chevelle, blue truck) © Brian Sullivan/istockphoto.com

Lightweight
Images: (Hypercar SUV design, depiction of carbon fiber) © 2008 WGBH Educational Foundation; (Amory Lovins & Ray Magliozzi, Lovins & Magliozzi with sledge hammer, prototype of Hypercar) photo by Joe Seamans, © 2008 WGBH Educational Foundation; (race car) © Mark Evans/istockphoto.com; (Hypercar SUV schematic) Courtesy of Inderscience Publishers and Rocky Mountain Institute, from Lovins, A.B. and Cramer, D.R. (2004) "Hypercars, Hydrogen, and the Automotive Transition," Int. J. Vehicle Design, Vol. 35, Nos. 1/2, pp. 50–85

Low Drag
Images: (Hummer) © Paul Morton/istockphoto.com; (airflow around Hypercar) © 2008 WGBH Educational Foundation; (wheel) © David Birkbeck/istockphoto.com

Accessories
Images: (man driving car) © Damir Cudic/istockphoto.com; (gas gauge) © Andreas Gradin/istockphoto.com; (black SUV) © Slobo Mitic/istockphoto.com; (car on road) © Galina Barskaya/istockphoto.com; (headlight) © Kristin Smith/istockphoto.com; (car CD player) © Niels Laan/istockphoto.com

Propulsion
Images: (Hypercar prototype, engine, Ray Magliozzi and tailpipe, Mazda Ryuga concept car) photo by Joe Seamans, © 2008 WGBH Educational Foundation; (car on road) © David Lewis/istockphoto.com; (biodiesel pump) © Logan Buell/istockphoto.com; (electric car plug) © Karen Keczmerski/istockphoto.com

Hypercars on the Horizon
Images: (Toyota 1/X concept car exterior/without doors/interior) © Toyota; (Nissan Bevel, Mazda Ryuga) photo by Joe Seamans, © 2008 WGBH Educational Foundation; (traffic at sunset) © EGDigital/istockphoto.com

TV Program Description
Images: (Tom and Ray) photo by Joe Seamans, © 2008 WGBH Educational Foundation

Open Production homepage
Image composite: (person driving car) © Aaron Horowitz/CORBIS

About the Producers
Images: (Joe Seamans) Courtesy Joe Seamans; (Janet Smith) Courtesy Janet Smith

Expert Participants
Images: (Tom and Ray Magliozzi) © Dewey, Cheetham and Howe; (Martin Eberhard) © Tesla Motors; (Andrew Frank) Courtesy Andrew Frank; (David Greene) Courtesy Oak Ridge National Laboratory; (John Heywood) Courtesy MIT; (Amory Lovins) Courtesy Rocky Mountain Institute; (Elizabeth Lowery) Courtesy General Motors; (Lee Rybeck Lynd) Courtesy Dartmouth College/Douglas Fraser; (Franklin Orr) Courtesy Stanford University; (Joseph Romm) Courtesy Joseph Romm; (Jón Björn Skúlason) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

My Car of the Future
Images: (Electric Honda del Sol) Courtesy Larry Allen; (Current Eliminator V) Courtesy Dennis Berube; (Prius Hybrid and Electric Bike) Courtesy of Ken Bookstein; (Voltbuggy) Courtesy Mario; (GM EV1, Toyota RAV4EV, Ford Ranger EV) Courtesy Eugen Dunlap; (Natural Gas Honda Civic) Courtesy Rex Irby; (Eracer) Courtesy C. Michael Lewis; (BugE Personal Electric Transport) Courtesy Mark Murphy; (VegOil Mercedes) Courtesy Cynthia Shelton; (Toyota RAV4Evs) Courtesy Greg Simon & Heidi Locke Simon; (GEM eL Neighborhood Electric Vehicle) Courtesy Stan Teliczan & Kim Cohagan; (Stanely Steam Car) Courtesy Robert Wilhelm, Jr.; (Electrabishi) Courtesy Mike Willmon

Past Updates
2.2.07
(All images) Courtesy Joe Seamans/© WGBH Educational Foundation

12.26.06
(All images) Courtesy Joe Seamans/© WGBH Educational Foundation

12.1.06
(Hydrogen Bus) Courtesy Icelandic New Energy Ltd.

Program credits

TV Program Credits

Hosted by
Tom and Ray Magliozzi

Narrated by
John Lithgow

Written and Directed by
Joseph Seamans

Produced by
Joseph Seamans
Janet Driscoll Smith

Consulting Producer
Doug Berman

Edited by
David Cohen

Director of Photography
Mark Knobil

Music
Andreas Bjørck

Sound Recordists
Frank Coakley
Doug Dunderdale
John Garrett
Jon Kjartansson
Paul Rusnak
Christopher Strollo

Gaffer
Matt Thurber

Assistant Camera
Gustavo Blanco
Chad Djubek
Drew Eckman

Animation
Ice Cold Milk
Damon Ciarelli
Boo Wong

Online Editor
Eric Ramistella

Colorist
John Crowley

Audio Mix
Sue Hartford

Engine Animation Courtesy of
General Motors
Designed by Kennedy Associates
Dan Zowada

Archival Material
ABC News VideoSource
Boeing Images
Chariton Valley Biomass Project
Getty Images
David Hannan Productions/Footage Search
Iowa Public Television
ITN Archive
MacDonald & Associates
Craig Perry
Phototake

Special Thanks
Aaron Borchert
David Cramer
Alina Dini
Joanne Donoghue
Emery Tree Service
Jon Fox-Rubin
Tamar Kitzmiller
Felix Kramer
Lester Lave
Missy Morgan
Bob Natkin
Tim Parkhurst
Franklin Orr
Sal Leo Tree Service
Tom Read
Alison Sander
Jory Squibb
Dar & Ben Thomas
Michael Wang
Nick Zielinski

 

NOVA Series Graphics
yU + co.

NOVA Theme Music
Walter Werzowa
John Luker
Musikvergnuegen, Inc.

Additional NOVA Theme Music
Ray Loring

Post Production Online Editor
Michael H. Amundson

Closed Captioning
The Caption Center

NOVA Administrator
Ashley King

Publicity
Eileen Campion
Anna Lowi
Lindsay de la Rigaudiere

Researcher
Gaia Remerowski

Production Coordinator
Linda Callahan

Unit Manager
Carla Raimer

Paralegal
Raphael Nemes

Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen

Assistant Editor
Alex Kreuter

Associate Producer,
Post Production

Patrick Carey

Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole

Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto

Post Production Manager
Nathan Gunner

Supervising Producer
Stephen Sweigart

Business Manager
Joseph P. Tracy

Producers, Special Projects
Lisa Mirowitz
David Condon

Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane

Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham

Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace

Managing Director
Alan Ritsko

Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell


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