Even though AutoblogGreen brought you lots of coverage from the Alternative Fuels and Vehicles expo and conference in Anaheim last week, with only one reporter on the ground there was no way to bring you everything. Thanks to the A/V people the conference hired, and the openness that some of the presenters feel, a lot of the session presentations are now available for you to read and watch online.

In most cases, what's being made available is just the PowerPoint files of the presentations. Two sessions, the ones on "Greening Up School Buses" and the "OEM Product Preview", also present a video, although more might be added later. It's just like being there, without feeling like you're in a hotel all the time.

[Source: AFVI]

The Alternative Fuels & Vehicles expo featured a lot of cars running on future technologies - hybrids, pure electric, clean diesel, hydrogen, E85. This short video captures the essence of these cars, including the ethanol Hummer, as they tooled around the Anaheim Conference Center area. You like the Hydrogen 7? Got it. The little three-wheeled Zap!? Check. The Brabus Smart diesel? Very nice. And so on.

Enjoy.

There wasn't too much new in the Monday-morning AFVI session California Dreamin': Forecast for Alternative Fuels, but a few viewpoints from the discussion are worth mentioning here.

Warren Mitchell, of Clean Energy, said it will be very difficult for petroleum products to meet emissions requirements in the future and that $80+ a barrel oil cost will push alternative fuel growth. Clean Energy hopes that a lot of the growth comes from natural gas produced in the U.S. used to power natural gas vehicles, like the Honda Civic GX (named ACEEE's Green Car for 2007). Mitchell said that switching to natural gas can result in annual fuel savings of between $4,400 for a taxi to $14,300 for a municipal bus. Sure, converting the engine costs money up front, but the cost will generally be paid back quickly (in a year or so) for many operators.

Paul Wuebben, clean fuels officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, echoed the developing mantra of these presentations that there is no one alternative fuel technology that everyone should be pursuing. His "interesting trends to watch" include a possible Toyota PHEV with flex-fuel technology, the "GM E-Volt platform" (sic), A123's lithium batteries and more.

Other panels provided a little more somethin' somethin', and that takes longer to write about (and process audio, etc.), so look for them in a little while.

Airports are a unique environment, especially from an alternative fuel and air quality perspective. While the largest polluters at an airport are the aircraft and individuals driving to the airport, two factors that airport management cannot really control (aircraft are subject to international regulations; more on individual cars later), there has been a lot of movement towards using cleaner alternative fuels at airports across the country.

During one of the early sessions at the Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference and Expo, which started yesterday, Flying High: Airports Take Off with Alternative Fuels, speakers representing airports (and related organizations) from across the country spoke on the surprising variety of methods that are in effect right now and more that are coming soon. We're talking propane, consolidating hotel shuttles, using more biodiesel and rebuilding entire sections of the airport for better traffic flow.

Read AutoblogGreen's exclusive report after the jump.

Ride and Drives with alternative fuel cars can be a strange thing. Take the case of BMW's Hydrogen 7 in Anaheim yesterday. It's a smooth drive, no doubt. But the whole point of having one of these at the AFVI Conference is that it can run on hydrogen, right? What you might not know is that the nearest hydrogen station to the Anaheim Convention Center, according to the BMW rep who rode shotgun while I took one of these for a spin yesterday, is 90 miles away. Thankfully, the Hydrogen 7 is also a Gasoline 7 (thanks to a dual-fuel system), and so the BMW team drove two 7s down to the AFVI show on regular old gas and then let the Ride & Drive participants cruise the streets on H2.

It's easy to change the fuel source at any time by pushing a button. You'll notice in the two photos of the driver display in the Hydrogen 7 gallery below a little window that either reads H2 (when you're running on the liquid hydrogen) or the time and date (when you're burning dinosaurs). You'll also notice that the hydrogen tank was pretty close to empty when I was behind the wheel yesterday. I wonder what'll happen between now and Tuesday, when the second AFVI Ride & Drive is scheduled.

For now, enjoy these photos of three of the cars that were available today. I'll have my comments on riding in the Phoenix SUT later.

We've mentioned all of these green car rental companies before, but this is the perfect time to recap, what with the Anaheim Alternative Fuels and Vehicles National Conference and Expo starting Sunday. If any of our readers will be traveling to the LA-area for the event (or any time), consider this a heads-up that you can drive an alternative-fuel car during your stay.

The AFVI conference support crew sent out an email listing three green rental companies: Bio-Beetle, Fox Rent-A-Car and EV Rental Car. If you're signed up for the conference, you can get a discount at the latter two. I've put the contact info for these companies after the jump.

Also, check out my story on the Maui Bio-Beetle experience.

[Source: AFVI]