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VIDEO: Lightning Hybrids' LH4 hits the road
Lightning Hybrids LH4 - Click above to watch the video after the break Back in early April at the Denver International Auto Show, Lightning Hybrids' showed off its new biodiesel-powered hydraulic-hybrid LH4, the design of which was inspired by the classic 1963 Split-Window Corvette. Although the team had to scramble to get the prototype together in time for its unveiling, things have now settled down a bit and Lightning has managed to get the vehicle in running condition. Assuming everything goes to plan, the car – supposedly capable ... Read more →
T3 Motion introduces three-wheeled CT3 personal commuter, plans to enter Auto X Prize Jeremy Korzeniewski
T3 Motion CT3 - Click above to enlarge 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 ...
VIDEO: Loremo takes to the streets, with sound Jeremy Korzeniewski
Loremo electric car - Click above to watch the video after the break It wasn't long ago that we first saw the first prototype from Germany startup automaker and Auto X-Prize hopeful Loremo move ...
HP2G acrimoniously drops out of Auto X Prize Sebastian Blanco
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 ...
Team Enertia to enter biodiesel-electric hybrid Studebaker Avanti in Auto X-Prize Jeremy Korzeniewski
Way back in the early 1960s, famed designer Raymond Leowy locked himself and his team in a rented house for five weeks with the intent of designing an exciting new sports coupe for Studebaker. The ...
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Foam car to enter Auto X-Prize competition 1 month ago on AutoblogGreen
According to Lon Ballard, designer of the Spira, a three-wheeled floating car made from foam (yes, foam), "The Spira team hopes foam will revolutionize autos and motorcycles like the Crocs and flip-flops have revolutionized shoes and sandals." Whether or not that's a good thing may depend not only ...
Optamotive to enter electric Campagna T-Rex in Auto X-Prize 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
It's been a few years since we've seen electrified versions of the Campagna T-Rex, a 3-wheeler with a 1,352 cc four-cylinder engine with nearly 200 horsepower. In late 2007 at the Electric Vehicle Symposium, a company called Silence Inc. showed off an electric vehicle based on the T-Rex called the ...
Loremo EV goes for its first drive [VIDEO] 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
Auto X Prize teaser update, more coming Wednesday and Thursday 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
With the New York Auto Show just around the corner, representatives from the Progressive Automotive X Prize will use the occasion and will mark the one-year anniversary of the official start of the competition by revealing the list of all registered teams, possibly as early as tomorrow. 80 teams ...
Auto X Prize suggests teams try winning venture capital, press venues first 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
One of the problems for some of the smaller teams that want to win part of the $10 million Automotive X Prize is that they might not have enough funds to get their cars into the streets for the competition. The X Prize team is looking out for them, though, and recently posted a notice about Startup ...
Lightning Hybrid to go for X-prize with 100 mpg biodiesel hydraulic hybrid 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
Auto X Prize deadline has passed; thoughts on the purse split 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
The Automotive X Prize's deadline for registration has passed and now we get to wait and see just who's going to be actually participating in the upcoming high-mileage competition. The organizers say that the last few days and hours before the deadline were "an absolute firestorm of phone calls, ...
We heart the X Prize (just like everyone else); 50 teams expected to compete 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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, ...
X-Prize logo and name used to fool eBay bidders (and us) 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
We were skeptical of the technology claims, but didn't take the time to double-check another of the "facts" stated in a recent (and now ended) eBay auction for a Chrysler LeBaron convertible. It turns out that while BrocktonEnergyLLC used "Experimental X-prize" in the name of the auction, the folks ...
Axon Automotive gets UK government funding for small city car 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a gallery of the Axon Hatchback We've been following Axon Automotive for the last few years, and the last we heard, the company was hoping to enter the Automotive X-Prize. According to new reports, the budding automaker has just received over £2 million from the UK ...
BrocktonEnergy drops out of Auto X-Prize, puts car on eBay 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
Washington 2009: ExerTrike Tri-Hybrids, including new Stealth model 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a gallery of the ExerTrike Tri-Hybrids The Tri-Hybrid Stealth (above) and Tri-Hybrid (below the jump) are on display at the Washington Auto Show in of the Green Car Pavilion. Not exactly cars, but certainly very green, the Tri-Hybrid is part recumbent bicycle, part covered trikes ...
Auto X Prize, DOE launch Fuel Our Future student website 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Know anyone who's in school? The Progressive Automotive X Prize (AXP) launched a new website today that targets K-12 students in the U.S. with information about the vehicles and fuels of the future. It's called, ta-da, Fuel Our Future Now. Divided into three sections - for elementary, middle school ...
Brazilian company Maxi-Eco to enter Auto X Prize 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
Auto X Prize has 25 teams registered with one month left 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
With formal registration only open for another month, the Progressive Automotive X Prize currently has 25 registered teams; you can see them all here. There are 20 teams listed on that page, and the X Prize says that two of the teams are still confidential - not sure who the other three are. Some ...
Detroit 2009: E85-powered Mustang, the HP2g, gearing up for the Auto X Prize 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res gallery Down in the basement (the smelly, smelly basement) of Cobo Hall at the Detroit Auto Show, we found Doug Pelmear and Jennifer Rodgers. They were sitting next to a car we didn't expect to see at the show, a 1987 Mustang. Why was the car there? Because Pelmear is ...
Detroit 2009: Automotive X Prize status report 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
It wasn't all flashy new cars during the media days at the Detroit Auto Show last week. During our time in Cobo Hall, we sat down with Cristin Lindsay, senior director of the Progressive Auto X Prize, to talk about where the AXP is right now. For those keeping track, we are about half-way between ...
Loremo 120-mpg and all-electric prototypes should be on the road soon 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Loremo The Loremo was one of the first vehicles we wrote about about when AutoblogGreen started back on Earth Day 2006. The company itself has been around since 2000 in Germany. It's a reality check to note that this initially super-high mpg aerodynamic ...
Detroit 2009: Myers Motors officially enters the Auto X Prize 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
AXP's senior director Cristin Lindsay and Dana Myers Way back in 2006, we took an in-depth look at the NMG, a quirky electric vehicle from Myers Motors that seats one and is based on the Corbin Sparrow. Myers Motors is still alive and kicking and selling NMG vehicles (but that Qui Moto didn't ...
Automotive X-Prize wants major automakers to join the race 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a gallery of TriTrack renderings 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 ...
Voting opens for X Prize's "Crazy Green Idea" videos 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
click then scroll down to watch videos Back in September, the X Prize Foundation asked: "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" 133 people answered the question with a video entry and the top three ideas - as selected by the Foundation - are now accepting your vote for the shot at a $25,000 award. The ...
X Prize Chevy Blazer is back, now with regenerative shocks 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Back at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, we talked with Jim Stansbury, the founder and CEO of the Physics Lab of Lake Havasu, about his company's slightly quixotic quest to modify a Chevy Blazer so it wins the Progressive Auto X Prize. Stansbury and his crew are now also operating as Regen EV Shocks ...
80 mpg Mustang back, will drive to SEMA and record mileage 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge "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 ...
Video: Avion timewarps from 1984, sets new mileage record of 113.1 mpg 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 Green finished building the Avion prototype. Designed to be as streamlined as possible and built on an ...
The Dagne: Video game on three wheels 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 commuter vehicle" and will feature a serial-hybrid drivetrain. Though it does have lots in common with ...
Should GM enter the Chevy Volt in the Auto X Prize? 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res gallery of the 2011 Chevy Volt The Progressive Auto X Prize has gotten over 100 teams that have expressed an interest in competing in next year's competition. While a lot of these teams are small groups with big dreams, the X Prize foundation has repeatedly said they'd ...
