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Automotive X-Prize: Only 15 vehicles from 12 teams left now

As expected, the recently concluded Automotive X-Prize Knockout Stage was not easy. The challenge was particularly brutal to the teams competing in the mainstream class. Of the nine teams that entered, the only team that will make it to the finals stage is Edison2 with its Very Light Cars (one…

The race to develop a 100-mpg car

Who are they? The only remaining American university team is backed by a legacy of fuel mileage records dating back to the mid-1970s. The school's Vehicle Research Institute has built 48 cars in the intervening years, including a few small series production runs, and one previous attempt at…

Automotive X Prize: Final Knockout results

The Knockout Stage of the Automotive X Prize competition is complete and now just 15 vehicles from 12 teams remain standing. (The competition started with 28 teams representing 36 vehicles.)

VRI's Eric Leonhardt: 'It's a longshot, but we do have a legitimate shot at winning'
²ÝÁñÉçÇø students to take experimental car to Detroit

A team of students from Western Washington University are heading to Detroit for the final round of the Automotive X Prize competition.

Automotive X Prize: Stress and triumph during the handling test

The Knockout phase of the Automotive X Prize delivered more blows and thrills, as remaining teams completed the required tests. After a long and stressful past few days, the teams all seemed thrilled to be returning home—at least when done by choice.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø makes it into finals round of competition to build super fuel-efficient car

Western Washington University's sporty coupe, the Viking 45, has passed all the tests in the knockout round of the Progressive Automotive X Prize - an international competition to build a super fuel-efficient vehicle that consumers want to buy.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø Viking makes it through X-Prize's Knockout Stage with 82 mpge

While the Automotive X-Prize has not yet issued any official press release about which teams have made it through the Knockout Stage, some of the teams are spreading the good news about their results. Western Washington University, the team behind the Viking 45, says it is one of 12 teams left…

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
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