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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 →

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 ...

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 Sebastian Blanco

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 ...

Automotive X-Prize judges separating out chaff teams Sebastian Blanco

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 ...

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 ...

Team Enertia to enter biodiesel-electric hybrid Studebaker Avanti in Auto X-Prize 6 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...


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