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Friday, Oct. 8, named Viking 45 Day in Bellingham
On the Moove

Professor Eric Leonhardt and his students at Western Washington University's Vehicle Research Institute have built a hybrid car that gets the equivalent of 94 miles a gallon while using a fuel made from a plentiful local waste product: cow manure. The most revolutionary aspect of this…

Automotive X-Prize Winners Share $10 Million For 100MPG Car Designs

One of those companies, I would like to add as a personal note, was one composed mostly of students from Western Washington University and led in part by my step-brother, Eric Leonhardt. Their Viking 45 gas-electric hybrid (second row, on the right above) made it all the way to the finals. I…

Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE to Award up to $10 Million on September 16

Progressive Insurance, the country's fourth largest auto insurance group, and The X PRIZE Foundation, an educational nonprofit prize organization, will announce the winners of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE at a special awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Sixth annual Tech Stomp in Bellingham Sept. 9

The keynote speaker of the event is Eric Leonhart, director of the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Vehicle Research Institute. He will speak about the Progressive Automotive X Prize, an international competition to build an ultra fuel-efficient vehicle. ²ÝÁñÉçÇø's team was the only U.S. university making it into the finals…

²ÝÁñÉçÇø officially out of $10-million X PRIZE competition
²ÝÁñÉçÇø Team In Final Round of Automotive X-Prize Contest

They say they’re in it to win.

A team of students from Western Washington University’s Vehicle Research Institute is now one of just 12 teams still in the running for the $10-million Automotive X-Prize Competition.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø X Prize Team will move on to finals in July
²ÝÁñÉçÇø team aims at next phase of X Prize for super fuel-efficient vehicles

"A team from Western Washington University has received a qualified go-ahead for the next phase of the Progressive Automotive X Prize - an international competition to build a super fuel-efficient vehicle that would appeal to the public.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø's Vehicle Research Institute and its…

Viking 45 Advances to Second Stage of Automotive X Prize Competition

"Viking 45, the entry of Western Washington University’s Vehicle Research
Institute, has made it into the next stage of the Progressive Automotive X-Prize Competition at Michigan International Speedway outside Detroit."

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