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Last Garage Team Standing: Illuminati Motor Works promising big things from Seven

It sort of figures that a team named Illuminati would beat all comers. While the Automotive X Prize is nowhere near over, Illuminati Motor Works is the " only 'garage team' remaining in the contest," according to a recent profile in the local State Journal Register. We're not sure what the criteria are for a garage team (it seems like there are still a lot of scrappy little teams involved), but the five guys in Team Illuminati are certainly putting in long hours to make their car, called Seven, a reality. Currently, it's a frame on wheels. ... Read more →

SEMA 2009: Progressive Automotive X-Prize Contenders Frank Filipponio

For us polar ice cap haters, we generally think of the competitors in this kind of thing as a bunch of ultra-light, tofu-fueled playthings for liberals who care more about the planet than they do ...

Auto X Prize wins $5.5 million from DOE for its own prize-giving contest Sebastian Blanco

While the Automotive X Prize's raison d'être is to give out money to the best high-mileage vehicles and business plans in the $10 million contest, as the saying goes, it takes money to give ...

Auto X Prize announces 43 qualified teams still fighting for $10 million Sebastian Blanco

The white stars on the map above could be used as the guidelines for a really fun road trip, if you're interested in learning as much as you can about the future of clean vehicles. From established ...

ThinkWrap, Auto X Prize partner for "near-real time" race vehicle monitoring Sebastian Blanco

Got a favorite team in the Automotive X Prize? Once the road race portion of the AXP starts up (which is when, again?), we'll be able to follow the contest and specific vehicles online thanks to ...

Auto X Prize to announce all teams "moving ahead in the competition" next week 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize has has a number of teams drop out recently (e.g., the Avion and the LincVolt), but the competition is not slowing down. Next week, in New York City, the AXP will formally announce the names of the teams that are "moving ahead in the competition." To ...

Meet the MAX: Homemade biodiesel-powered Lotus Seven replica 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Generally speaking, purchasing an eco-friendly automobile is an expensive proposition. One way to reduce that cost is by going homemade. Such is the case with Jack McCormack from Kinetic Vehicles, who decided that he would love to have fun, practical, affordable and high-mileage two seater under ...

ExxonMobil gives $25,000 to Philly high school X Prize team for Hybrid K-1 Attack 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

For ExxonMobil, $25,000 is not a lot of money. For a group of high-school students working on a 100+ mpg car for the Automotive X Prize, it's a great boost to get their Hybrid K-1 Attack – or whatever vehicle the team enters into the AXP (the press release mentions but does not describe ...

Avion withdraws from Auto X Prize, cites increasing costs of participating in 100 mpg challenge 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Another one bites the dust (see also: LincVolt and HP2G). The Automotive X Prize will not feature an updated diesel-burning version of the Avion prototype from 1984 . Craig Henderson, the president of Avion Car Company, has sent a withdrawal letter to the AXP claiming that the costs of ...

Automotive X-Prize judges separating out chaff teams 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

The road to actually compete in the Progressive Automotive X Prize is a tough one. We've been following the competition since well before the official Day One, and we can't quite understand the difference between all of the different levels that a team can be considered. What we do know is that ...

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