Interview with Jim Stansbury of Physics Lab of Lake Havasu

Episode 11 of the X Prize Cars podcast is live! (13 minutes; download MP3). It contains an interview with Jim Stansbury of Physics Lab of Lake Havatsu (AXP blurb), conducted on March 21st, 2008 at the New York Auto Show.

Notes from the interview:

- he is an anesthesiologist from Arizona, with a life long interest in automotive technologies
- many affiliated people/teams from around town
- batteries will go under the vehicle, which is lifted so there is room
- dune buggy suspension team which hopes to scavenge energy
- carbon fiber wing on the roof - look like a roof rack, but houses solar PV system and provides lift to the vehicle
- he read about the Automotive X Prize in a magazine, compares it to an Olympics for creative engineers and scientists
- thinking about a solar thermal / steam system, but steam turbine is very very heavy
- also a small internal combustion engine
- thinks that interest in funding and help for the team will pick up now that the prize is real - a legitimate contest
- call for sponsors, with a shout out to some favorite rock stars

See also a good interview by Autoblog Green, which was conducted at the Detroit Auto Show in January. (19 minutes; download MP3)