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Auto X Prize announces the experts who will make sure the rules are followed 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

While progress on the Automotive X Prize has been off track a little bit over the past year, things are still moving forward. Today, the AXP announced the names on a panel of experts that have been hired to lead the technical operations for the competition. What does that mean? It means that these ...

Lincvolt withdraws from X-Prize, will focus on "main goal" 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Neil Young's evolving Lincvolt project – a 1959 Lincoln Continental that weighs 2.5 tons and is 19.5 feet long that is being converted into a "bio-hydro-electric series hybrid vehicle" – today officially announced it will no longer participate in the Automotive X Prize. The split seems ...

Synergy Innovations bringing electric MINI to Auto X Prize 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Like BMW's official MINI E, but don't appreciate how the battery pack takes up most of the space behind the front seats? Synergy Innovations, one of the officially registered teams in the Automotive X Prize, is using a MINI as a basis for their prototype electric vehicle powertrain called the ...

West Philly X Prize team's Hybrid Attack on the street [w/VIDEO] 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

We got to meet the West Philly Hybrid X Team's Hybrid Attack at the New York Auto Show last year. Now, the students at the inner-city public high school West Philadelphia High School Academy for Automotive and Mechanical Engineering are being called a "top-10 contender in Progressive Automotive ...

Auto X Prize starts up Carbonrally team: Lots of small improvements = big results 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize requires teams to make a huge investment of time and money to try and produce a sensible, 100-mpg car. The creators of the Auto X Prize realize that there are easier ways to can help the planet, especially if lots of people make small changes. To that ...

VIDEO: Lightning Hybrids' LH4 hits the road 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Back in early April at the Denver International Auto Show, Lightning Hybrids' showed off its new biodiesel-powered hydraulic-hybrid LH4, the design of which was inspired by the classic 1963 Split-Window Corvette. Although the team had to scramble to get the prototype together in time for its ...

T3 Motion introduces three-wheeled CT3 personal commuter, plans to enter Auto X Prize 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

T3 Motion, creators of the Segway-esque non-balancing T3 Series Electric Stand-up Vehicle for police and security use, has just issued a press release detailing its plans to launch a new three-wheeled electric vehicle called the CT3. The new vehicle is the first machine from T3 that was ...

VIDEO: Loremo takes to the streets, with sound 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

It wasn't long ago that we first saw the first prototype from Germany startup automaker and Auto X-Prize hopeful Loremo move under its own power on video. That clip, though, left us a bit wanting, primarily because there was no sound to be heard. When watching Loremo's latest video, go ahead ...

HP2G acrimoniously drops out of Auto X Prize 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

January was a simpler time for the relationship between Doug Pelmear/Horse Power Sales (makers of the HP2G engine that was in the Mustang we saw in Detroit a few months ago) and the Automotive X Prize. Back then, the two were happy neighbors in the NAIAS basement (the smelly, smelly basement). No ...

Team Enertia to enter biodiesel-electric hybrid Studebaker Avanti in Auto X-Prize 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Way back in the early 1960s, famed designer Raymond Leowy locked himself and his team in a rented house for five weeks with the intent of designing an exciting new sports coupe for Studebaker. The result was known as the Avanti, and it's often looked back upon as one of the most attractive ...



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