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SEMA 2009: eVARO plug-in hybrid three-wheeler debuts, returns

If the eVaro from Future Vehicles Technologies pictured above looks familiar, then perhaps you've been following the development of the Alé. A reddish orange Alé, developed by FVT when it still stood for FuelVapor Technologies, was on display at SEMA in 2006. The more things change... digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Plug_in_Hybrid_Trike_Gets_275_MPG_Does_0_60_in_5_Seconds'; Making its "debut" at SEMA this year, the eVaro was decked out as a golden squid. Then, as now, the car is one of the contenders for the ... 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 ...

Auto X Prize to announce all teams "moving ahead in the competition" next week Sebastian Blanco

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Loremo EV goes for its first drive [VIDEO] 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 ...

Full list of 111 Automotive X-Prize teams released 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 completed the process and are now eligible to compete. Those teams have entered a total of 136 vehicles with ...

Lightning Hybrid to go for X-prize with 100 mpg biodiesel hydraulic hybrid 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 other with four, that use a biodiesel-fueled hydraulic hybrid powertrain. Not a lot of details are ...

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, ...

BrocktonEnergy drops out of Auto X-Prize, puts car on eBay 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

At least one hopeful Automotive X-Prize competitor won't be participating in the event as planned. It seems that Brockton Energy wasn't quite able to achieve its goal of hitting 100 miles per gallon with the modified Chrysler LeBaron convertible that the team was working with, so the car is now on ...

Brazilian company Maxi-Eco to enter Auto X Prize 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

When the Automotive X-Prize announced its competition, and especially the $10 million in prize money that goes along with it, we figured that plenty of small, relatively unknown companies would enter the proceedings. They have. The good news is that this is exactly the point of the event – to ...

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 ...

80 mpg Mustang back, will drive to SEMA and record mileage 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Remember Doug Pelmear, the inventor and mechanic from Toledo, Ohio who claims that his late-80's Fox Body Mustang makes 400-horsepower and still manages to return 80 miles per gallon? Doug's back in Toledo's news and he's making the same claims as before. In fact, Pelmear's Mustang can run on ...

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 ...

New $100 million X-Prizes created to spur development of clean energy 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The X-Prize foundation was established help spur developments in a variety of areas including space travel, medicine and genomics. We've had plenty of coverage here of the Automotive X-Prize where the target is to develop a production viable car that can achieve the equivalent of 100mpg. The ...

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 ...

Top 20 green cars we wish we could buy today, Number 19: Velozzi 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image for a gallery of high-res renderings of the the Velozzi car The fact that the Velozzi car is all the way at number nineteen does not mean it isn't an exciting design. In fact, far from it, as the vehicle looks amazing! Velozzi is an R&D group that's focusing on developing ...

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: 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 ...

Overview: teams competing in the Automotive X-Prize 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the Loremo for a high-res gallery After the success of the original Ansari X-Prize, the X-Prize Foundation started creating new X-prizes in areas like medicine and cars. The Automotive X-Prize was announced in 2006 and in April of this year, the organizers released the first draft of the ...

Malcolm Bricklin's Visionary Vehicles to enter Automotive X-Prize 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click to enlarge the 1/4 scale model of the EXV-LS digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Malcolm_Bricklin_brings_Visionary_Vehicles_to_the_Automotive_X_Prize'; This morning serial automotive entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin announced that his Visionary Vehicles company is developing a car that ...

If two-thirds of Americans want to buy 100mpg cars, how much might they pay? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Most of the readers of this site will likely have heard of the Automotive X-Prize by now, a competition to develop a commercially viable vehicle that gets the equivalent of 100mpg of gasoline. The beauty of the competition is that it's open to all technology and puts the emphasis on vehicles that ...

FuelVapor Technologies shows off X-Prize competitor 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click one the Ale for a high-res gallery of the X-Prize competitor Three wheelers seem to be all the rage lately for automotive startups. This probably has something to do with the fact that they are classed as motorcycles and therefore not subject to pesky automotive safety regulations like crash ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Neal Anderson of the Automotive X-Prize 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Auto_X_Prize_senior_director_explains_how_a_100_mpg_car_will_become_real'; During the recent New York Auto Show, AutoblogGreen had a chance to spend a few minutes talking to Neal Anderson, one the Senior Directors of the Automotive X-Prize competition. We ...

Team Velozzi developing Automotive X-Prize competitor 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image for a gallery of high-res renderings of the the Velozzi car digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Suck_my_nonexistent_exhaust_Team_Velozzi_s_Automotive_X_Prize_challenger'; Team Velozzi is one of the teams that is planning to compete for the Automotive X-Prize. They are an ...

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