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

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 out money. To that end, the AXP announced today that it has received $5.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy. The funding is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and is intended to "to support the X PRIZE Foundation's work to inspire a new generation of energy efficient vehicles" through technical assistance and outreach ... Read more →

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 ...

Meet the MAX: Homemade biodiesel-powered Lotus Seven replica Xavier Navarro

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, ...

ExxonMobil gives $25,000 to Philly high school X Prize team for Hybrid K-1 Attack Sebastian Blanco

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 – ...

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 ...

Auto X Prize throws water on GM's 230 mpg claim, offers mpge calculator 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

With all of the attention being paid to the 230 mpg number that the Chevy Volt will apparently be granted by the EPA, the Automotive X Prize thought it was time to weigh in on the subject of calculating fuel efficiency for vehicles that use energy sources other than gasoline. They don't like it. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dirigo three-wheeler now up to 99 mpg, wood panels look good 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

One of the cars participating in the One Gallon Challenge is the Dirigo three wheeler. Built by Bill Buchholz, the Dirigo is right now tantalizingly close to the 100 mpg goal of the One Gallon Challenge (and the Automotive X Prize, of course). Buchholz had the following to say about his car: ...

Foam car to enter Auto X-Prize competition 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

According to Lon Ballard, designer of the Spira, a three-wheeled floating car made from foam (yes, foam), "The Spira team hopes foam will revolutionize autos and motorcycles like the Crocs and flip-flops have revolutionized shoes and sandals." Whether or not that's a good thing may depend not only ...

Optamotive to enter electric Campagna T-Rex in Auto X-Prize 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

It's been a few years since we've seen electrified versions of the Campagna T-Rex, a 3-wheeler with a 1,352 cc four-cylinder engine with nearly 200 horsepower. In late 2007 at the Electric Vehicle Symposium, a company called Silence Inc. showed off an electric vehicle based on the T-Rex called the ...

Auto X Prize teaser update, more coming Wednesday and Thursday 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

With the New York Auto Show just around the corner, representatives from the Progressive Automotive X Prize will use the occasion and will mark the one-year anniversary of the official start of the competition by revealing the list of all registered teams, possibly as early as tomorrow. 80 teams ...

Auto X Prize suggests teams try winning venture capital, press venues first 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

One of the problems for some of the smaller teams that want to win part of the $10 million Automotive X Prize is that they might not have enough funds to get their cars into the streets for the competition. The X Prize team is looking out for them, though, and recently posted a notice about Startup ...

Auto X Prize deadline has passed; thoughts on the purse split 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Automotive X Prize's deadline for registration has passed and now we get to wait and see just who's going to be actually participating in the upcoming high-mileage competition. The organizers say that the last few days and hours before the deadline were "an absolute firestorm of phone calls, ...

We heart the X Prize (just like everyone else); 50 teams expected to compete 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

There's nothing wrong with tooting your own horn from time to time, just so long as you happen to be deserving of praise. Such is the case with the Progressive Automotive X Prize, which says that it's managed to score more than a billion impressions (combined between web, print, radio and ...

Consumer Reports teams up with the Automotive X Prize for MPGe, safety tests 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Automotive X Prize will get help with the safety and education portions of its competition from Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports will be the competition's "Official Active Safety Testing Partner." We spoke with the Auto X Prize's senior director, Cristin Lindsay, during the Detroit Auto Show, ...

X-Prize logo and name used to fool eBay bidders (and us) 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

We were skeptical of the technology claims, but didn't take the time to double-check another of the "facts" stated in a recent (and now ended) eBay auction for a Chrysler LeBaron convertible. It turns out that while BrocktonEnergyLLC used "Experimental X-prize" in the name of the auction, the folks ...

Auto X Prize, DOE launch Fuel Our Future student website 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Know anyone who's in school? The Progressive Automotive X Prize (AXP) launched a new website today that targets K-12 students in the U.S. with information about the vehicles and fuels of the future. It's called, ta-da, Fuel Our Future Now. Divided into three sections - for elementary, middle school ...

Auto X Prize has 25 teams registered with one month left 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

With formal registration only open for another month, the Progressive Automotive X Prize currently has 25 registered teams; you can see them all here. There are 20 teams listed on that page, and the X Prize says that two of the teams are still confidential - not sure who the other three are. Some ...

Detroit 2009: E85-powered Mustang, the HP2g, gearing up for the Auto X Prize 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Down in the basement (the smelly, smelly basement) of Cobo Hall at the Detroit Auto Show, we found Doug Pelmear and Jennifer Rodgers. They were sitting next to a car we didn't expect to see at the show, a 1987 Mustang. Why was the car there? Because Pelmear is still promoting his claim to get ...

Detroit 2009: Automotive X Prize status report 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

It wasn't all flashy new cars during the media days at the Detroit Auto Show last week. During our time in Cobo Hall, we sat down with Cristin Lindsay, senior director of the Progressive Auto X Prize, to talk about where the AXP is right now. For those keeping track, we are about half-way between ...

Loremo 120-mpg and all-electric prototypes should be on the road soon 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Loremo was one of the first vehicles we wrote about about when AutoblogGreen started back on Earth Day 2006. The company itself has been around since 2000 in Germany. It's a reality check to note that this initially super-high mpg aerodynamic vehicle and then all-electric vehicle is still ...

Automotive X-Prize wants major automakers to join the race 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

There's been plenty of interest in the Automotive X-Prize since it launched a couple of years back after the success of the original Ansari X-Prize. Dozens of start-ups and independent inventors have signed up to compete. Notable by their absence, though, are major automakers. This is likely due to ...

More on the TriTrack, an Auto X-Prize contender, sort of 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

The stated goal of the Automotive X-Prize is to spur the "design [of] viable, clean and super-efficient cars that people want to buy." That's going to take innovation, which is a great thing, though these concepts still need to be realistic. We're not counting anybody out, but a company called ...

Wouldn't you know it, Auto X Prize says people support 100 MPG cars 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

While I don't doubt that a 100+ mpg car would be widely popular in America, I just feel the need to headline this story the way I did because so convenient that the X Prize Foundation just released a study showing this. The Auto X Prize, an idea I fully support, says that 62 percent of Americans ...

Automotive X-Prize announces first 31 teams accepted to competition 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/First_31_teams_announced_in_100_mpg_equivalent_Auto_X_Prize_competition'; The Automotive X-Prize has announced the first thirty-one teams to be accepted into their upcoming mileage competition and several of our favorite subject companies are on the list. ...

Autoblog Green Podcast #6 - Roberto Jerez of Velozzi and the 200 mpg car 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Sharing a bit of auto design wisdom with us on the latest AutoblogGreen podcast is Roberto Jerez, who gives us the skinny on Velozzi and their 200 mpg entry for the Auto X Prize. Plus, the highlights from recent news and we're still grooving to our new theme music. UPDATE: transcript of the Q&A ...

Update from the Automotive X Prize team 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The X Prize group has yet to finalize their rules and prize for the upcoming Auto X Prize event. While we wait (and we are waiting, because there was the suggestion earlier this year that the rules would be out at the end of 2006, but all we know now is that the groups has "made a lot of progress ...

AutoblogGreen exclusive Q&A with the Auto X Prize's Mark Goodstein 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

In 2004, the spaceplane SpaceShipOne won ten million dollars in the Ansari X Prize. Following the resounding technological and media success of that launch, other X Prizes were put into motion, including the Automotive X Prize. At the end of July, the Auto X Prize's website went live, but a lot of ...


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