Welcome!
Welcome to the Combined Technology Solutions webpage! Our company is dedicated to finding solutions to problems by raising the bar on technological advances. This web site is dedicated to our newest challenge: Building a 100 MPG vehicle with our very own breakthrough technology. This vehicle is a clean, super-efficient, marketable to consumers, and has the ability to reach 100 MPGe or better. Using our own Lean Burn Technology and Plasma Ignition Technology we are well on our way to achieving 100 MPG! Please browse our web page to find more information about this extraordinary challenge and ways you can help us continue this journey!
Latest News and Updates
March 30, 2010: The 100 MPG Car is running! Our pearl white Cadillac CTS travelled it's first trip today at 144 miles with a Honda 1.3L engine (saving us 400lbs). This is a great accomplishment in our 100 MPG Challenge!
March 30, 2010: CTS was disqualified from the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE after the 3rd Technical Deliverable. Due to a shortened timetable by the X PRIZE and funding problems, our team was unable to make the deadline in time to finish a high voltage drive system design in our vehicle. However, we are still well on our way to 100 MPG and will be adding our ultra lean burn technology to our running vehicle in a few weeks!
March 24, 2010: New photos and updates on Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress Blog, and new Flickr account. Check them out by clicking icons above!
March 12, 2010: Open House Event--attendees were able to get an exclusive look at our vehicle and meet the team before the start of the 100 MPG Challenge.
January 27-31, 2010: CTS is an exhibitor at the 2010 Washington Auto Show as the first debut to our 100 MPG vehicle! Come visit us in the Advanced Technology Superhighway special exhibit!
January 24, 2010: An Eastern Shore, MD newspaper, The Star-Democrat, runs an article about CTS and the upcoming auto show. See the article at http://www.chesapeakebusinessledger.com/news/article_2eac3638-08f0-11df-b689-001cc4c03286.html
November 1-3, 2009: CTS travels to Las Vegas, NV for the first Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Team Summit.
October 19, 2009: The X PRIZE Foundation and their sponsor, Progressive Insurance announced the qualified teams who will continue in the race to build a 100 MPG+ car starting in the spring of 2010. CTS is one of 24 teams who made the cut for the Mainstream Class! Congratulations everyone!
September 2009: Caroline County, MD and CTS successfully formed an alliance to locate our R&D and manufacturing facility in Ridgely, MD--Thank you Caroline, Co!
September 18, 2009: "Wow I didn't know that!" GreenTech Convention & Expo
August 2009: CTS begins negotiations with Caroline County, MD to lead the technology charge on the Eastern Shore
November 11, 2008: World Motorsports Expo in Koln, Germany
October 6, 2008: Gas Machinery Research Council Conference
June 2008: World Engine Expo in Stuttgart, Germany
February 2008: Joe Anderson forms Combined Technology Solutions and enters the 100 MPG XPrize