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| X Prize Winners Named, Getting Millions | Funding for the Automotive X Prize comes from Progressive Insurance, with additional funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, Cisco and private donors. Among the entrants that did not make it to the podium were cars from Cornell and Western Washington University, Tata Motors, Tango Commuter… |
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| Winners announced in X Prize competition to build super fuel-efficient vehicles | |||
| 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… |
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| X Prize Marks Fuel-Efficiency Spot For Future Cars | Oliver Kuttner and his team of designers have seen the future of fuel-efficient cars topping the dreamed-of mark of 100 miles per gallon. This week, the Edison2 team is being rewarded for its vision with half of the $10 million X Prize. To get into the Edison2's four-seater gas-… |
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| 3 Teams Win Fuel-Efficient Car Prize | Teams from Virginia, North Carolina and Winterthur, Switzerland, with roots in the world of auto racing have won the first Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, the $10 million competition aimed at advancing the technology for more fuel-efficient vehicles. |
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| Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE to Award up to $10 Million on September 16 in Washington, D.C. Ceremony | 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. Up to $10 million… |
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| Seattle Storm, Solar Power, And Feral Rabbits | Cheaper Solar Power? Western Washington University researchers say they've come up with a solar power innovation that could cut costs dramatically and enable solar panels to collect energy on cloudy days. |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø researchers say they could dramatically cut cost of solar power | A team of Western Washington University researchers have developed a new approach to solar electricity generation they say could eventually cut solar power to 1/10th of its current cost. The team recently won a three-year grant of $970,000 from the National Science Foundation to continue… |
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| 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. |
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| Bellingham man's car goes from Canada to Mexico on one tank of fuel | Bellingham resident Craig Henderson has driven the car he built in the 1980s from Canada to Mexico on one tank of diesel, getting an average of 119.1 miles per gallon, he said, and shattering the old record the car set back in 1986. Henderson started his border-to-border drive Sunday, Aug… |