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Automotive X-Prize judges separating out chaff teams

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 the AXP's judges are hard at work these days looking over the submissions of the Registered Teams, deciding which vehicles will be allowed to continue as part of the Qualified Teams. After the initial pass, teams with vehicles deemed good enough to ... Read more →

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 ...

Video: Avion timewarps from 1984, sets new mileage record of 113.1 mpg Domenick Yoney

Remembered as the year that the Apple Macintosh first went on sale, Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire and Richard Petty won his 200th NASCAR race, 1984 was also when Craig Henderson and Bill ...

The Dagne: Video game on three wheels Domenick Yoney

Hold the presses! There is yet.another.enclosed.three-wheeled.vehicle.being developed in America. The Dagne from Revolution Motors is meant to be an "ultra-efficient, high-performance sustainable ...

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

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

X Prize contender update: Electric Raceabout debuts on the web 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge Based on an Audi R8 chassis and using a few currently-available components (like the air conditioner from an Audi A3), the new Electric RaceAbout (ERA) from Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia is getting ready to take part in the Progressive Automotive X Prize. The ERA is a lightweight ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2008 New York Auto Show video preview: some of the teams in the Auto X-Prize 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One thing we are really looking forward to at the New York Auto Show is the official start of the Auto X-Prize, a contest to build a 100 MPGe car with a multi-million dollar prize. At the Detroit Auto Show, the X-Prize people and some of the teams had car models on display (see video below the ...

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 ...

Dilbert creator Scott Adams hates on the Auto X-Prize, green car drivers 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Scott Adams, the creator of the popular comic strip, Dilbert, is not a fan of green cars. His lack of enthusiasm for green autos probably comes from the fact he thinks global warming is taken out of proportion. Adams also seems to think that engineering a green car might not be possible. In a post ...

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 ...

Video: 130 MPG Ingo car gets local news coverage 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Ingo Valentin was interviewed on local news station WISN recently about his 130 MPG Ingo Car. The car uses in-wheel motors that run on fluid pressurized from a small on-board gas motor. Ingo hopes the car will win the X-Prize so he will get the funding needed to get the car into production. The car ...

Auto X Prize releases teaser video 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Automotive X Prize is not a movie (but it would make a good documentary, I'm guessing), but that didn't stop the organizers from asking Studio Vagabond to create a teaser video for the upcoming event. If you need a three-minute way to explain to a friend what the Auto X Prize is all about, this ...

Wired Magazine January 2008 cover: the race to make 100 MPG car 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The cover story of the January 2008 issue of Wired Magazine is "100 MPG! The Race To Build The Ultimate Fuel Efficient Car." The article is all about the X-Prize, which will award $10 Million to the maker of the most fuel efficient car. A short video with a test drive of the Aptera, one car in the ...

SciAm names X Prize Foundation the "Policy Leader of the Year" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While hyper-efficient automobiles are not the only thing that the X Prize Foundation is focused on, the Foundation's Automotive X Prize has garnered a fair share of posts here on AutoblogGreen. For the Foundation's broader mission (missions is perhaps the better word), the Board of Editors of ...

Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin falls hard for Gale Banks' diesel speed trucks 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Sooner or later, everyone in the auto industry comes into contact with Gale Banks. And, if you're just looking for a prime tune-up, check out this post from May where we mentioned how Banks is offering to convert any type of diesel vehicles to a high-performance monster. Banks seems to be on a ...

Cornell University X-Prize team to base their car on a Geo Metro 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the teams entered in the Automotive X-Prize is from Cornell University and they have selected an unexpected car which they will use as their test platform. In order to meet the goal of 100 mpg gasoline equivalent, team members have decided to build a plug-in hybrid and have procured an old ...

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 ...

al goes for X-Prize 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Whether there's a consumer market for the alé, a 2-seat 3-wheeler built by Fuel Vapor Technologies, or not, the vehicle is an early contender for the Automotive X-prize. The X-Prize is a global competition designed to inspire automotive innovation, and a multi-million-dollar prize is up for ...


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