If you want to know why Quantum Technologies - or to use it's full name - Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide - rose by a staggering 18.42% yesterday, there's just one answer;

The Fisker Karma
- as launched at the Geneva Motor Show yesterday.

This comes not long after being awarded $14.5 m by Fisker Automotive to advance and integrate Quantum's proprietary high-performance plug-in-hybrid electric vehicle ("PHEV") architecture -- known as "Q-Drive" -- for the Fisker Karma four-door sport sedan production model.

For more details about the Fisker, see their website here.

It's fascinating how many niche players are emerging into the nascent alternative energy vehicle market,with production runs in the low 1000s. Meanwhile the big automotive players, Toyota excepted, bang on about fuel cells and run endless and expensive demonstration programmes with a handful of vehicles, proclaiming a breakthrough.  Honda's FCX Clarity and BMW's 7 series edition, are both cases in point.