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X Prize on 100mpge Volt: good, now let's think of the big picture

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 recommended that the EPA, "consider adopting MPGe as a unit of measure that would more accurately reflect fuel consumption of alternative energy vehicles, and we welcome further discussions with them on this topic." We all know that one of the X Prize's ... Read more →

X Prize asks: "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" Sebastian Blanco

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. ...

More than 120 teams ready to compete in Auto X Prize Sebastian Blanco

As predicted, the Automotive X Prize crossed the century mark for teams signed up to compete in the "Ultimate Fuel Economy Challenge." While we know that not all of these teams consider themselves to ...

Automotive X Prize is hiring, team size to double Sebastian Blanco

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 ...

Who else thinks the Poulsen hybrid is the sleeper team to win the X Prize? Sebastian Blanco

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 ...

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 ...

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: everything on the Progressive Automotive X Prize in one place 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We had a heap of posts on the Progressive Automotive X Prize (that still doesn't quite roll off the tongue) following the big announcement from New York last week. In the flurry of posts, it may have been easy for someone who doesn't check AutoblogGreen with an F5-trigger finger fanaticism ...

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: 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 ...


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