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X Prize Cars
X Prize Cars (xprizecars.com) has great X Prize Foundation news, photos, videos and more
Tuesday, Aug 18
Kinetic Vehicles MAX Withdraws from Automotive X Prize
But lately, this competition has been interfering with our goal for MAX: a high-mileage car you can build on a budget. The final rules have no place for a DIY car, and preparing MAX (even on paper) for factory production -- as in 10,000 cars a year -- has been sucking up our resources like you wo...
Thursday, Mar 19
Automotive X Prize News: March 19th, 2009
An interview with Peter Diamandis, a slide show, updates from the PIAXP team itself, and news on Aptera, Avion, Global-E, Lightning Hybrids (pictured), Linc-Volt and Myers Motors. Plus more.
Friday, Jan 9
Major Carmakers Invited to Join "Demonstration Division" of Automotive X Prize
Can you think of any way to get the major carmakers to participate? I'm sure the Automotive X Prize folks would love to get an email with an innovative new way to get the majors involved... maybe what we need is a prize contest for ideas on how to get GM to race the Volt (pictured at NAIAS 2008) in the...
Thursday, Jan 8
Business Plan Requirements for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize
A few of months ago the X Prize Foundation (XPF) opened up official registration for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize. The 120+ teams that we've been talking about here on X Prize Cars are actually only "letter of intent" teams, meaning they haven't official applied to compet...
Saturday, Jan 3
Videos - Tesla, Aptera, Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis (pictured after a bailout joke) backstage at EG 08. "The way we transport ourselves today is basically lazy... we use an 80 year old technology". The article links to his 20 minute talk at EG itself - start watching at 15:30 for Automotive X Prize material. Bionic human prize comi...
Wednesday, Oct 8
Automotive X Prize News: Oct 6th, 2008
This post is half a week late, but still reflects only material up to Monday. We've got news about Linc-Volt, Motive Industries, ZAP, Aptera (pictured is the new "production" design), and MDI/ZPM. Plus, details on the PHEV tax credit (which was inside the bailout bill), cars from the Paris...
