Automotive Technology: Online Resources

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory works to advance energy-efficient vehicles and environmentally friendly fuels. Our goal is to help industry introduce advanced, low-emission, economically competitive vehicles and fuels into the marketplace.

The Data Center provides a wide range of information and resources to enable the use of alternative fuels in addition to other petroleum reduction options such as advanced vehicles, fuel blends, idle reduction, and fuel economy.

Health and safety regulations for workers in autobody repair shops.

The BTS focuses on the following, each mandated by legislation: 1) compiling, analyzing, and publishing a comprehensive set of transportation statistics; 2) making statistics readily accessible; and 3) implementing a long term data collection program.

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

This Environmental Protection Agency site provides information on gas mileage for passenger vehicles dating back to 1985, plus information on fuel economy, vehicle comparisons, pollution emissions, safety ratings, alternate fuels, and more.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is an executive branch agency responsible for overseeing the development and maintenance of a safe, efficient multi-modal transportation system throughout the Commonwealth.

Includes information on traffic safety problems and issues,vehicle test results,governmental regulations and standards and research and development. Also a good source for statistics on all types of traffic accidents.

Information about highway vehicles (cars and light trucks, heavy trucks, buses, engines, and motorcycles) including fuel economy, emission standards and regulations, emission recall programs, new vehicle certification and in-use vehicle compliance, inspection and maintenance programs, diesel retrofit programs, evaluating the benefits of inventions designed to reduce emissions, and importing vehicles to the United States.

The DOT seeks to serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.

The Antique Automobile Club of America, founded in 1935, is the world's largest automotive historical society. The AACA is dedicated to perpetuating the memories of early automobiles by encouraging their history, collection and use.

CCCA is dedicated to the collecting, preservation and enjoyment of the world's finest automobiles which were manufactured from 1925 through 1948.

Comprehensive site for the car collector enthusiast.

The Petersen Automotive Museum, is dedicated to the interpretive study of the automobile and its influence on our culture and lives. Encompassing more than 300,000 square feet, its exhibits and lifelike dioramas feature more than 150 rare and classic cars