Automotive X Prize

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The Progressive Automotive X PRIZE is a prize from the X PRIZE Foundation to encourage the creation of a new generation of viable, environmentally-friendly vehicles. Teams compete for multi-million-dollar cash prizes by designing and building super-efficient marketable vehicles that will achieve 100 MPG (2.35 liter/100 kilometer) or its equivalent.

There are two separate competitions: the mainstream class and the alternate class. The mainstream vehicle must seat 4 people and have 10 cubic feet of storage room as well as accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 12 seconds, be able to drive 200 miles, and achieve a speed of 100 mph in addition to fuel economy of 100 mpg. The alternate class vehicle must seat at least two people, achieve a speed of 80 mph, be able to drive 100 miles in addition to having a fuel economy of 100 mpg.[1]

The mainstream class has a prize of $7.5 million. The alternate class's prize is $2.5 million.[2]

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[edit] Competition summary

  • Ambitious teams from around the world work to design and build production-capable, super-efficient, clean vehicles that people want to buy.
  • In addition to the 100 MPGe criteria, vehicles must also produce less than 200 grams/mile CO2 emissions. This actually imposes a 133 MPGe criteria on all-electric vehicles.
  • Teams compete in two dramatic races that rigorously test vehicle efficiency, performance and durability under real-world conditions.
  • Teams are required to submit a business plan which clearly demonstrates an ability to produce 10,000 vehicles per year. Note that teams are not required to be under-taking this plan, but the plan has to exist and the car has to be designed such that this plan is feasible.
  • Vehicles with the best overall time in Final Race while still meeting requirements will win.

[edit] Competition guidelines

To encourage feedback, the AXP published draft Competition Guidelines, which were open for public comment from April 2 to May 31, 2007. The product of thousands of hours of effort by the AXP and world-class advisors, the Competition Guidelines are based upon sound principles of fairness, inclusiveness and independence[citation needed].

[edit] Competing teams

On March 20, 2008 the X Prize Foundation Announced the current list of teams who have signed a letter of intent to compete in the Automotive X Prize sponsored by Progressive. The following is a list of current competing teams, though not a complete list, since the foundation will still accept applications through the end of 2008.

  • AirShip Technologies Group (Lake Oswego, OR, USA)
  • Aptera Motors (Carlsbad, CA, USA)
  • Arkas Automotive (Istanbul, Turkey)
  • Avion Car Company (Bellingham, WA, USA)
  • Belloso Motor Company (Salisbury, MD, USA)
  • Brilliant Automotive (Fairfield, IA, USA)
  • Brilliant Automotive (Southfield, IA, USA)
  • Commuter Cars Corp (Spokane, WA, USA)
  • Cornell Automotive X-Prize Team (Ithaca, NY, USA)
  • DEHyds (Tenino, WA, USA)
  • Delta Motorsport (Northamptonshire, UK)
  • Desert Fuel (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
  • Disruptech (Newhall, CA, USA)
  • Team Dragonfly (Northampton, UK)
  • Electric Truck Inc (Greenwich, CT, USA)
  • Energy Highway (Pleasanton, CA, USA)
  • Esterer Engineering Ltd. (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
  • FuelVapor Technologies BC (Maple Ridge, BC, Canada)
  • Global-E (Mandeville, LA, USA)
  • Goodwin-Young “Linc Volt” (Wichita, KS, USA)
  • Greenhouse 2000 (Orlando, FL, USA)
  • Gunn Team (San Jose, CA, USA)
  • HerfDuo (Berlin, Germany)
  • Hybrid Technologies (Mooresville, NC, USA)
  • HyKinesys (Rolling Hills Estate, CA, USA)
  • ICEwave (Terre Haute, IN, USA)
  • Illuminati (Virden, IL, USA)
  • Kinetic Vehicles (Creswell, OR, USA)
  • Kuttner Doran Innovations (Charlottesville, VA, USA)
  • laeN’O (Marshall, NC, USA)
  • Loremo (Munich, Germany)
  • Lydell Industries (Frewsburg, NY, USA)
  • Maine Automotive X (Camden, ME, USA)
  • Mann Research & Development, (Benton, KY, USA)
  • MDI and Zero Pollution Motors (Nice, France and New Paltz, NY, USA)
  • Michigan Vision (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
  • Miles Electric Vehicles (Santa Monica, CA, USA)
  • Motive Industries, Inc. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
  • MotoTron Disrupt (Oshkosh, WI, USA)
  • Northwest Energy Research Association (Arlington, WA, USA)
  • Phoenix Motorcars (Ontario, CA, USA)
  • Physics Lab of Lake Havasu (Lake Havasu, AZ, USA)
  • Porteon Electric Vehicles, Inc. (Portland, OR, USA)
  • Poulsen Hybrid / Alpha-Core (Bridgeport, CT, USA)
  • Prometheus Systems (Flagstaff, AZ, USA)
  • Psycho-Active (Moore, SC, USA)
  • RaceAbout Association (Helsinki Finland)
  • Red Light Racing (RLR) (Callaway, MD, USA)
  • Revolución Motors (Lawrence, KS, USA)
  • Society for Sustainable Mobility (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
  • Spirit One (Alberta, CA, USA)
  • T3 Motion (Costa Mesa, CA, USA)
  • Team TWIKE IV (Germany)
  • Tesla Motors (San Carlos, CA, USA)
  • Tilting Vehicle Australia (Kilburn, Australia)
  • TriTrack (Georgetown, TX, USA)
  • USA Electric Cars, LLC (Cortland, NY, USA)
  • Valentin Technologies (Elm Grove, WI, USA)
  • Velozzi (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
  • Venture Vehicles (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
  • Visionary Vehicles (New York, NY, USA)
  • West Philly Hybrid X Team (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
  • Western Washington University/Vikings (Bellingham, WA, USA)
  • X Tracer Team Switzerland (Winterthur, Switzerland)
  • ZAP (Santa Rosa, CA, USA)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Carney, Dan. "Automotive X Prize Seeks 100-MPG Car", 2007-05-20. Retrieved on 2008-03-20. 
  2. ^ "X PRIZE Foundation & Progressive Insurance Join Forces to Officially Announce the $10 Million Progressive Automotive X PRIZE -- the Race to Develop Ultra Fuel-Efficient Cars". Retrieved on 2008-30-21. 

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