Automotive X Prize News: March 19th, 2009

By Eric Boyd on March 19, 2009 11:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Tags:

Aptera,

Avion,

AXP Rules,

AXP Stages,

EnerMotion,

Enertia Motors,

Global-E,

Kinetix Motors,

Lightning Hybrid,

Linc Volt,

MDI,

Myers Motors,

Tata Nano,

Tesla,

ZAP Alias,

ZPM

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.

TreeHugger has done a really excellent interview with Peter Diamandis on the AXP. Among other things, we learn that New York, San Francisco, Detroit, and Cleveland are already chosen for stages, with likely only 2 more to come.

Slideshow: Cars of the Automotive X-Prize, including Aptera, ZPM/MDI, Avion, Kinetix, ZAP Alias, Enertia Motors, EnerMotion, Tata Hybrid Indica / Electric Nano, Tesla Roadster.

Automotive X Prize entries near finalization. Currently 27 of them are listed on the PIAXP teams page, but more have been said to be coming, because there was a huge tidal wave of last minute entries.

Rules: reasoning behind the purse split, a few engineering reasons, but mostly it comes down to wanting to keep the math simple.

Calling All Teams: New Opportunities for Funding and Press.

Electric motor polarizes opinion, supposedly the team developing this miracle has entered the AXP, but the name of the team is not given.

Aptera: Website Update & Newsletter 2/27/2009. Photos of non-white Apteras! (actually I think they are all photoshopped)

Avion: video

Global-E: North Shore (New Orleans) Inventor Designing a 100 mpg Car, with video from WGNO ABC 26's newscast.

Lightning Hybrids: Only Colorado Car Maker in Denver Auto Show to Unveil First Prototype on April 1, Lightning Hybrids to Introduce Hydraulic Hybrid Sports Sedan at Denver Auto Show, Lightning Hybrid to go for X-prize with 100 mpg biodiesel hydraulic hybrid. 100-MPG Hybrid Evokes The Classic '63 Corvette, Rocky Mountain "Hi": Lightning Hybrids to debut prototype at Denver Auto Show, 100 MPG Hydraulic-Hybrid vies for X Prize, Runs on Biodiesel, Lightning Hybrids LH4 promises 100 mpg and 0-60 mph in 5.9 seconds, The Lightning Hybrid and the Inizio EV.

Linc Volt: Neil Young Makes Entire Concept Album About Electric Cars. Neil Young's eco-car album, Fork in the Road, now ready for pre-order.

Myers Motors: Engineering TV: Myers Motors NmG Electric Vehicle.

Shipyard Labs: Auto X-Prize Entry Runs on Auto X-Prize Trash, a gasification entry. But the article says that as of March 12th (after the final deadline) the team had not yet been accepted, so don't know if this is a real team or not...

Tesla Founders: What Happens Next? talking about issues beyond just Tesla, i.e. the electric vehicle industry in general.

VIDEO: Jay Leno's Garage welcomes the MINI E.