About X Prize Cars

About X Prize Cars
X Prize Cars is focussed on the Automotive X Prize competition: the teams, their cars (see The X Prize Cars on the right), and the technical and business challenges of building and racing super-efficient vehicles. XPrizeCars.com is meant to make it easy for people to learn about and compare the competitors for the Automotive X Prize. Got something that should be posted here? contact me!

About Eric Boyd
I'm a serial entrepreneur with an engineering background. I founded X Prize Cars because I am passionate about efficiency and wanted to do something to help the world move to a more sustainable technological infrastructure. When the Automotive X Prize was announced, I was curious about the various teams and their vehicles, but frustrated by how scattered the information about them was. X Prize Cars is my solution - and hopefully it can be yours as well.

About the Automotive X Prize (excerpt from their press releases)
The goal of the Automotive X PRIZE (AXP) is to inspire a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change. The multi-million dollar AXP purse will be awarded to the teams that win a staged race for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 miles per gallon equivalent fuel economy.

There have been many excellent stories about the Automotive X Prize in the news. X Prize Cars recommends these three:

Wired: 1 Gallon of Gas, 100 Miles — $10 Million: The Race to Build the Supergreen Car, the cover story from the January 2008 edition. Best press yet.

Edmunds: The X Prize and the 100 MPG Car, a good summary of the draft rules. You can read more about the rules here and at Joel Makower, who is on the board of advisors.

MSNBC: 'Green' Teams go for Auto Race, which has an excellent set of comments by ordinary people.