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Loremo EV goes for its first drive [VIDEO]

The first running prototype of the German Loremo has achieved its road-worthiness certificate and has hit the road in its home country. Loremo is working on three different powertrains - gas, diesel and electric - and has entered the diesel version in the Automotive X-Prize. That competition is still shaping up, so Loremo's first car to hit the road is the battery-powered variant. The first prototype went for a ride around town recently and the video is now available. You can check it out after the jump. [Source: YouTube] ... Read more →

Full list of 111 Automotive X-Prize teams released Sam Abuelsamid

The organizers of the Automotive X-Prize have released the full list registered entrants for the upcoming super-mileage competition. By the time registrations closed a total of 111 teams had ...

Lightning Hybrid to go for X-prize with 100 mpg biodiesel hydraulic hybrid Sam Abuelsamid

A small startup company in Loveland, Colorado is working on what it hopes will be the keys to the Automotive X-Prize. Lightning Hybrids is building a pair of vehicles, one with three wheels and the ...

Automotive X-Prize wants major automakers to join the race Sam Abuelsamid

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 ...

First 22 officially registered X-Prize teams announced Sam Abuelsamid

The crew at the Automotive X-Prize are still plugging away at making the $10 million prize competition a reality beginning in 2009. Here at the Los Angeles Auto Show, they have announced the first 22 ...

Julie Zona joins Automotive X Prize as director of team relations 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Automotive X Prize has hired an industry veteran to manage team relations with competitors vying for the $10 million prize. Julie Zona will work to recruit new teams to the competition as well as coaching existing teams. Zona's background includes stints at Mayco Plastics, Chrysler and Saleen ...

Austin Alt Car: TriTrack concept wins the outlandish-as-all-get-out prize 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

"I'm the greenest guy here." That's the claim of Jerry Roane, of Roane Inventions Incorporated, who did note that the pure solar vehicles in the corner were potential competitors. "Here" is the first ever Austin Alt Car Expo, which started today in Austin Texas. We can debate whether Roane is ...

Auto X Prize not half-filled with low-speed vehicles 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

So, the other day I heard the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE's Cristin Lindsay say that about 50 of the 100+ teams that might be part of the contest were working on small, neighborhood vehicles. Specifically, Lindsay said the following: "With our competition, we are seeing many, many companies, 50 ...

X Prize on 100mpge Volt: good, now let's think of the big picture 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Following Friday's report of the agreement between GM and CARB on the status of the Volt, the Automotive X Prize took stock of the deal and issued its statement on the possibility of a 100-MPG rating for the highly-anticipated car. While praising what GM is doing with the Volt, the X Prize also ...

AltCar 2008: half of those 100 Auto X Prize teams are working on low-speed vehicles 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

During a panel discussion on public transportation today at the Santa Monica AltCar Expo, Cristin Lindsay, senior director of the Automotive X Prize, gave us a bit more information about the teams that have signed up to participate in the race. You might remember that in late August, the X Prize ...

X Prize asks: "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at the official start of the Auto X Prize. Sometimes, people on the green fringe are called some not-so-nice names, with "crazy" being one of the more mild. But, if you're the kind of greenie who revels in the wacky, perhaps you've got an idea you'd like to ...

At least 14 cities vying for an Auto X Prize stage race in 2009-2010 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at the official start of the Auto X Prize. Once all of the designers and teams get their ducks in a row and prep their vehicles for the cross-country portion of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize in 2009 and 2010, they're going to need places to go. ...

Toledo TV station checks out "110mpg" Mustangs, leaves skepticism at home 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A Toledo, Ohio-area mechanic is claiming to have a miracle breakthrough originally conceived by his grandfather more than 60 years ago. The development has supposedly been installed on Doug Pelmear's 1987 Ford Mustang and allows it to achieve 80-110mpg, depending on which story you believe. ...

Automotive X Prize says McCain's $300m battery prize needs more work 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

John McCain's (R) call for a $300 million prize for better automotive battery is still making waves. The latest to raise a voice are the people who are already offering some prize money for cleaner cars: the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE. Of course, the AXP is a much smaller prize purse ($10m) and ...

Ratan Tata, Michael Boustridge join X Prize Foundation Board 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A month ago, Tata Motors announced they would be entering two vehicles in the Automotive X Prize. The company's involvement with the 100 mpge challenge has now deepened as Ratan Tata, the Chairman of Tata Sons (which owns Tata Motors, the maker of the Tata Nano, among other companies) has become a ...

Hybrid Technologies to enter electric supercar in Automotive X Prize 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hybrid Technologies, the company which offers the (not very popular) electric Mini Cooper and the all electric L1X-7 sports car, has announced plans to enter the Progressive Automotive X Prize. The vehicle that they will be entering looks to be an extremely sporty vehicle, and would compete in the ...

TVA Gazelle tilting vehicle joins Automotive X Prize 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image for more shots of the TVA Gazelle In the last few years, we've witnessed a rash of new three and four-wheeled vehicles which are radically different than what is currently considered normal for automobiles. Many of these tilting designs have been created expressly to combat the ...

Automotive X Prize is hiring, team size to double 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

If the Automotive X Prize has caught your attention and you'd like to do more than read about it, good news: the X Prize Foundation is hiring. As Cristin Lindsay, the senior director of the Progressive Automotive X Prize, told AutoblogGreen, these are four key positions and I'm thinking there's ...

Who else thinks the Poulsen hybrid is the sleeper team to win the X Prize? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Following up on the post the other day about Popular Mechanics' attempt to rank the top ten Automotive X Prize teams, reader and tipster Manu wrote, "My bet for #1 is Poulsen Hybrid. It's not on the list and it's never been mentioned on ABG" (he also has his own take on the Poulsen Hybrid here). ...

For now, these are the Top Ten Automotive X entrants 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

New York's mayor Bloomberg standing by the Hybrid X. We're a long way from determining the winner - if there ever is one - in the Progressive Automotive X Prize. I mean, the race only got started (officially) at this year's New York Auto Show. Still, there are 64 teams that have signed a "letter of ...

New images of the X-Prize entry from Motive Industries 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Aspiring Automotive X-Prize competitor Motive Industries has released new images of their car. The original images were design sketches and the new shots are computer generated images. No word yet on when a prototype will actually be running, but Motive does have some interesting ideas for their ...

The top five upcoming green events, number one: Automotive X Prize 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We're really high on the Automotive X Prize, and it was an easy choice as the number one upcoming green event. The Auto X Prize will be worth ten million, and is sponsored by Progressive Casualty Insurance. We've covered everything we know about the X Prize on these pages, and we've even got an ...

New York 2008: Jory Squibb returns with an X-Prize entry 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enter gallery We met Jory Squibb way back in late 2006 over at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo. How can you miss a guy driving a tiny, 100+mpg bubble car called the Moonbeam? Jory, from Maine, is now back on the ABG radar with his presence at the New York Auto Show. He didn't have a car with ...

New York 2008: Motive Industries' muscular X Prize entry vehicle needs a name 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Of the 60+ teams that have signed a letter of intent to participate in the Progressive Automotive X Prize, about 15 were on hand at the New York Auto Show. With only four cars on stage, it's easy to calculate that some teams arrived sans vehicle. The group from Motive Industries had just a little ...

New York 2008: Actually, it's not called the Air Car - Q&A with MDI's Guy Negre 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Automotive X Prize announcer used it. We've been using if forever. And, until recently, MDI and Zero Pollution Motors were still calling their vehicles the Air Car. Now, though, to avoid confusion as much as possible, the preferred term is "Compressed Air Vehicle" (don't look now, but the ZPM ...

New York 2008: Venture Vehicle's Howard Levine on the future of the VentureOne 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge When we saw the distinctive shape of the VentureOne under wraps before the start of the Progressive Automotive X Prize announcement, we were pretty psyched. While the appearance of this vehicle on stage does revive our hope that we'll be able to drive one of these high-mpg hybrids ...

New York 2008: West Philly's Hybrid Attack makes other high schools look lame 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge If the person being interviewed in the picture above looks a little bit young, well, that's because he is. He's a student at the West Philadelphia High School Academy for Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, which is fielding the youngest team of entrants in the Progressive ...

New York 2008: Progressive Insurance CEO on why he's spending $10m on the Auto X Prize 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In the general hub-bub before the Automotive X-Prize kick-off event yesterday, we cornered Progressive Insurance's President and CEO Glenn Renwick for a few brief moments to get his thoughts on the prize. I mean, it's his company that is putting up the ten million dollars in prize money, so you can ...

Officially, official: The Progressive Auto X Prize has now begun 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Before this release gets too much older (traveling sure eats into blogging time, I'll tell you that), let's confirm what was announced today at the New York Auto Show about the Progressive Automotive X Prize. The full statement can be found after the jump, but here's a bulleted list of highlights: ...

New York 2008: MDI's Air Car uncovered 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While wandering around near the Automotive X-Prize booth, look what we stumbled onto: MDI's air car. The green plastic-y version that had just been uncovered - I think for a video team's camera - bears only slight resemblance to the rendering that appeared on the X-Prize screen. It looks even less ...

Auto X Prize will be worth ten million, sponsored by Progressive Casualty Insurance 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We'll have full coverage from New York of the Automotive X Prize's new details in a few hours, but CNN has just announced that the total prize purse will be ten million dollars. That's the same as what was given for winning the Ansari X Prize, which sent private citizens into space. The title ...

New York 2008: Air Car in the house starting Thursday 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Tomorrow, MDI will show the Big Apple what an air car looks like. The unique compressed-air-powered vehicle will be unveiled during the Automotive X Prize's big announcement on Thursday. We've been following the progress of the Air Car for quite some time, and look forward to letting our cameras ...

X Prize praise from the U.S. Senate 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We're waiting for the Automotive X Prize's big announcement next week, but the U.S. Senate has decided that now is as good a time as any to heap some bipartisan praise on the X Prize foundation for inspiring "a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles that could help break the addiction of ...

New York 2008 preview: Automotive X-Prize will name title sponsor, big bucks prize purse 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

I'll forgive you if you thought the Automotive X Prize had started already. Not the actual race, of course, which is coming in 2009-2010, but the preliminary parts. I guess all of those teams that have signed letters of intent to participate were active in the pre-preliminary-phase. The official ...

X Prize: major automakers were approached but won't enter, sponsor cars 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

According to Michigan Live, the Auto X-Prize approached all the top auto makers but none has entered the competition. In fact, the major auto makers won't even sponsor cars. Donald Foley, executive director of the Auto X-Prize, still holds out hope, saying, "we would very much like them to ...

Detroit 2008: AutoblogGreen Q&A: Malcolm Bricklin talks about building a PHEV supply base 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

During the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, ABG sat down to chat with Malcolm Bricklin about his latest project Visionary Vehicles. Mr. Bricklin has been involved in the car business for four decades and could be described as a serial entrepenuer. Over the years his projects have had varying degrees of ...

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