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By Michael Timmons The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured world headlines when Burt Rutan, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and flew the world’s fir...

By Sebastian Blanco Making its "debut" at SEMA this year, the eVaro was decked out as a golden squid. Then, as now, the car is one of the contenders for the Progressive Automotive X Prize on display at SEMA this year. Over the years, FVT has increased the car's estimated MPG rating from 92 mpg using a pure gasoline e...

By Sebastian Blanco While the Automotive X Prize's raison d'être is to give out money to the best high-mileage vehicles and business plans in the $10 million contest, as the saying goes, it takes money to give out money. To that end, the AXP announced today that it has received $5.5 million from the U.S. Department...

By Sebastian Blanco Got a favorite team in the Automotive X Prize? Once the road race portion of the AXP starts up (which is when, again?), we'll be able to follow the contest and specific vehicles online thanks to AXP's just-announced partnership with ThinkWrap. Vehicles will be monitored in "near-real tim...

By Sebastian Blanco At that time, the AXP will also give more details about DASH+, the national high school contest that is part of the larger Prize. DASH+ asks students to "design the next generation dashboard that supports behavior change to help drivers maximize fuel efficiency and reduce environmental...

By Michael Timmons BAKERSFIELD, CA – Oct. 08, 2009 – Masten Space Systems, led by David Masten, successfully flew its lunar lander rocket vehicle, XA-0.1B, also called “Xombie” twice in two hours. Masten is the second of four teams attempting to win a portion of a $2 million incentive prize purse as part of the N...

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By Michael Timmons 10 MILLION ANSARI X PRIZE X PRIZE Foundation Leads the Field in Prize Competitions and Radical Breakthroughs for the Benefit of Humanity The X PRIZE Foundation continues to further explore future competitions through its prize development. Prize concepts include:

By Michael Timmons 10 MILLION ANSARI X PRIZE X PRIZE Foundation Leads the Field in Prize Competitions and Radical Breakthroughs for the Benefit of Humanity The X PRIZE Foundation continues to further explore future competitions through its prize development. Prize concepts include:

By Xavier Navarro The resulting car is called the MAX: Mother's Automotive eXperiment. Although the initial goal was to reach the 100 mpg mark set for the Auto X Prize, the resulting car turned out to be a little far from this objective and was totaled in an accident. Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured.

By Sebastian Blanco For ExxonMobil, $25,000 is not a lot of money. For a group of high-school students working on a 100+ mpg car for the Automotive X Prize, it's a great boost to get their Hybrid K-1 Attack - or whatever vehicle the team enters into the AXP (the press release mentions but does not describe two vehi...

By Sebastian Blanco It was a difficult decision to not sign the Master Team Agreement, a 64-page legal document for the X Prize, but the requirements for the contest and the cost of competing have gotten too rich for a work a day guy like me. I estimated it would cost around 25K to compete in the X Prize and the way th...

By Michael Timmons The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured the world’s attention when the Burt Rutan-led team, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and f...

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By Sebastian Blanco With all of the attention being paid to the 230 mpg number that the Chevy Volt will apparently be granted by the EPA, the Automotive X Prize thought it was time to weigh in on the subject of calculating fuel efficiency for vehicles that use energy sources other than gasoline. They don't like i...

By Sebastian Blanco We'll start with the numbers: $1,995 will get you a 2 kWh plug-in battery pack for your second-generation Toyota Prius; $2,995 will get you a 4 kWh pack (the installation feel and the $95 delivery charge are extra). For your two or three grand, you can reach "the holy grail of achieving 100 mp...

By Sebastian Blanco The hybrid Attack burns biodiesel and gets about 60 mpg, according to 16-year-old Sowande in the video. That leaves 40 mpg to go to reach the AXP's 100 mpg target, but this is still an impressive effort from high school students. Learn more about the car here.

By Jeremy Korzeniewski At this time, the vehicle exists only in rendered form (pay close attention to the wheels and tires in the above image), but T3 plans to enter a special CT-S version of the machine in the Auto X Prize that will reportedly be capable of 80 miles per hour and an equivalent mpg rating of over 100 mi...

 MA Among the forward-looking projects currently underway is work on an entry in the Google Lunar X-Prize, a $30 million competition to develop the first privately funded craft to land on the moon and travel across its surface. ...

 MD Private missions to the Moon, including Space Adventures' proposal for a Soyuz circumlunar flight and the Google Lunar X PRIZE, are also discussed. Perhaps the biggest area of interest, and speculation, in the book is the discussion of Chinese human ...

By Sebastian Blanco Yesterday, Horse Power Sales issued a statement (read it after the jump) that said they had "officially withdrawn their team and their 1987 Mustang, powered by the revolutionary, 110MPG, V-8, HP2g engine, from the upcoming Progressive Automotive X PRIZE Competition, effective June...

By 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 result was known as the Avanti, and it's often looked back upon as one of the most attractive aut...

By Sebastian Blanco One of the cars participating in the One Gallon Challenge is the Dirigo three wheeler. Built by Bill Buchholz, the Dirigo is right now tantalizingly close to the 100 mpg goal of the One Gallon Challenge (and the Automotive X Prize, of course). Buchholz had the following to say about his car:

Potter said he's applying the lessons from "Orphans of Apollo" in his own work with Odyssey Moon, one of the teams entered in the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize competition. "We don't view ourselves as competing with NASA," he said. ...

By Domenick Yoney Vancouver just played host to the Epic Expo, an exposition centered around sustainable living, and one of the exhibitors there might be familiar to dedicated AutoblogGreen readers. Last year in New York, we introduced you to the alé by Fuel Vapor Technologies which, at the time, was good...

We're pleased to announce that another team has proclaimed their entry as an official competitor for the $30 Million Google Lunar X PRIZE! The team - White Label Space – is a brandless Moon 2.0 space technology start-up company headquartered in the ...

By Michael Timmons The evening experience includes a direct conversation with Dr. Diamandis exploring how Arizona can participate and contribute on a global scale by advancing opportunity through science, education, technology and entrepreneurism. The presentation by Dr. Diamandis will highlight th...

The auction is being pitched as a way to raise awareness of "whole genome sequencing," in particular the X Prize Foundation's Archon X Prize for Genomics (AGXP), a global competition that will award $10 million to the first person or team that can ...

Seventeen teams are vying in the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize competition, and if there's one name that's on the lips of many of those competitors, it's Astrobotic. The team boasts a name that readily conveys its ambitious aspirations for reaching ...

By Michael Timmons The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured the world’s attention when the Burt Rutan-led team, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and f...

Here, SPACE.com looks at Odyssey Moon, one of 17 teams competing in the Google Lunar X Prize: When the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize premiered, the first official team to sign up was Odyssey Moon — but the company has plans far beyond winning or ...

By Michael Timmons ABOUT THE X PRIZE FOUNDATIONThe X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured the world’s attention when the Burt Rutan-led team, backed by Microsoft co-fo...

By Sam Abuelsamid Fuel sources include the usual suspects such as pure battery electric (32), gas and diesel electric hybrids (36) and straight gas, diesel and compressed natural gas vehicles. There are also solar/electric hybrids, hydrogen, compressed air and a hybrid human/gas/electric vehicle. As...

 Canada Private space exploration really took off with the launch of the Ansari X Prize. Named after sponsors Amir and Anousheh Ansari (the latter being the world's fourth space tourist) the Ansari X Prize was a competition to build and fly a reusable space ...

By Eliot Van Buskirk It was like a low-stakes X Prize for music as musicians, inventors and hobbyists competed against each other in the first annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech for cash prizes of $10000. ...

In 2004, the Foundation captured the world's attention when the Burt Rutan-led team, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and flew the world's first private spaceship to win the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for suborbital spaceflight. ...

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By Domenick Yoney If you have a strong interest in electric vehicles taking flight (in both the metaphoric and non-metaphoric senses) than you may want to attend the upcoming Electric Aircraft Symposium on April 24th at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California. The impressive line up of speak...

By Sebastian Blanco One other bit of information that the X Prize organizers have shared on their blog is the reasoning for changing the $10 million prize purse from a 3-to-1 split between mainstream and alternative classes to a $5 million mainstream prize and two alternative class winners - one for a vehicl...

 CA Kurzweil, who will be Singularity University's chancellor, began discussing the concept for the school two years ago with Peter Diamandis, who chairs the X Prize Foundation and co-founded the International Space University in 1987. ...

By Alexis Madrigal WiSci 2.0: Alexis Madrigal's Twitter , Google Reader feed, and project site, Inventing Green: the lost history of American clean tech; Wired Science on Facebook. Space-loving Twitterers recalled their memories of the Challenger disaster Wednesday, which tragically disintegrated d...

By Sam Abuelsamid 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 lik...

By Ben Mack The Progressive Automotive X-Prize and its promise of $10 million to whoever develops a 100 mpg car has drawn some pretty wild ideas, but the bullet-shaped TriTrack electric car designed by Roane Inventions takes the cake. TriTrack combines the versatility...

By Jean Levasseur The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured the world???s attention when the Burt Rutan-led team, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built an...

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By Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides Image: Jeff Foust A team of rocket-vehicle designers came tantalizingly close to winning the $2-million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge this morning. The lunar lander built by Armadillo Aerospace managed to lift off vertically from a lunch and land on a second pad...

By Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides Image: Jeff Foust A team of rocket-vehicle designers came tantalizingly close to winning the $2-million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge this morning. The lunar lander built by Armadillo Aerospace managed to lift off vertically from a lunch and land on a second pad...

The X Prize contest was reminiscent of aviation's early days, when privately funded prizes inspired design competitions and trial-and-error efforts with comparatively little governmental help. Charles Lindbergh didn't fly the Atlantic with the assistance of a federal grant; he wa...

By info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports) The X Prize was conceived to spur innovation. It was inspired by the Orteig prize, which Charles Lindbergh won by flying across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. The first X Prize, the Ansari X Prize, was for a private spacecraft that could launch into sub-orbital space twice in two weeks. It was won...

By Frank Filipponio We've told you before about the Automotive X-Prize, the contest challenge looking for producible vehicles that are designed with environmental friendliness in mind. The purpose of the contest is "to inspire the development of commercially viable, super efficient vehicles that move...

By WorldChanging Team Posted by WorldChanging Team in Transportation at 10:53 AM) WorldChanging TeamThe non-profit X Prize Foundation, known worldwide for its efforts to encourage private spaceflight, is launching a new competition to develop super-efficient vehicles that are...

By Frank Filipponio Sister-blog AB Green just posted this story about X-Prize. Remember X-Prize? They were the organization that put up a considerable sum of money to reward the first person to successfully go into outer space with their own spacecraft. After Burt Rutan won that first X-Prize with his SpaceS...

By Mike Millikin Automotive X Prize The X Prize Foundation has released its draft competition guidelines for the upcoming Automotive X Prize for public comment. The Automotive X Prize (AXP) follows the model of the Ansari X Prize for private space flight, offering a multi-million purse—not...

By George Dvorsky It's time to revive the biosphere projects of the early 1990s. Given the private sector's recent enthusiasm to develop space tourism technologies, perhaps another X Prize is in order. BIOS-3 and Biosphere 2 The failure of Biosphere 2