June 19, 2008
X marks the spot in oil crisis
"The timing couldn't be better for the recent launch of the Progressive Automotive X Prize, an offer of $10 million to the person or team that invents a safe, affordable car that gets at least 100 mpg..."

May 15, 2008
Upending Auto X Prize Field, Big Players at Tata Motors (and Neil Young!) Enter 100-mpg Plans
"After sending the market for a whirl earlier this year with the unveiling of the world’s cheapest ride, Tata Motors has declared its intent to enter the Automotive X Prize’s race for the 100-mpg car of tomorrow..."

May 15, 2008
Tata is first automaker to try for $10 million X Prize
"India's Tata Motors has become the first major automaker to enter the $10 million Automotive X Prize competition."

May 1, 2008
Top 10 Early Contenders for the Automotive X PRIZE
"Now, as gas prices soar and the AXP entry pool officially opens, we take a detailed look at the most promising startups."

April 17, 2008
Run for the green
"Publicity from the New York announcement, including news that insurance company Progressive is funding the purse, likely will push the field to more than 80 teams..."

April 11, 2008
The Hunt for Super-Efficient Cars
"So many people complain about what we’re doing to the environment. Well, here’s at least one chance where people - specifically car manufacturers -- can get paid to do something about it."

April 4, 2008
The Greenest Automakers
"Undoubtedly, all of the major automakers will be paying attention to a new "X-Prize" announced last month that offers a $10 million purse to whomever can design and bring to market a 100 mile-per-gallon vehicle."

March 25, 2008
Fast Talk: Designing a Next Gen Car
"We feel that the technology to achieve these goals exists today, but it needs to be combined in a way that will work for people."

March 24, 2008
$10 million quest for a practical 100-mpg car
"Small innovators rule so far in the entries for the Progressive Automotive X Prize for the most fuel-efficient car."

March 24, 2008
Automotive X Prize finds sponsor - get your applications ready
"The Automotive X Prize is off to the races. This high-minded contest is designed to spur teams to develop a 100-mpg car by offering a $10 million prize. Starting in the next 60 days, X Prize organizers will begin accepting final applications. "

March 21, 2008
Insurer Ponies Up to Sponsor X Prize
"The X Prize Foundation and Progressive Corp. announced that the insurer would put up the $10 million prize for the development of a production viable, 100 mile-per-gallon vehicle."

March 21, 2008
Green cars to compete for 10-million-dollar prize
"...city Mayor Michael Bloomberg described the initiative as 'an excellent example of how the private sector can spur solutions to our most complex challenges.'"

March 21, 2008
$10 million offered for production-ready 100-m.p.g. vehicles:
"Ten million dollars amounts to loose change for most automakers, but the backers of the Automotive X Prize hope it's enough to kick off a race for better vehicle technology."

March 20, 2008
X Prize dangles $10 mln for fuel-efficient car
"A few early contenders rolled quietly into the New York auto show on Thursday, some on three wheels. Others, like the Hybrid Attack from a high school team out of Pennsylvania, sported a more traditional speedster silhouette."

March 20, 2008
Bloomberg praises auto prize
"Mayor Michael Bloomberg says a new $10 million prize to develop more fuel-efficient cars will help reduce the country's dependence on oil."

March 20,2008
The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE on the Today Show

March 20, 2008
Automotive X-Prize is Official; Progressive to Sponsor
"Strange as it might seem, the Automotive X-Prize—which will award a $10 million prize to the team(s) that develop production-ready cars that get the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon—wasn't official until this afternoon. But today at a press conference at the New York International Auto Show, X-Prize honcho Peter Diamandis fired the starting gun."

March 20, 2008
Automotive X Prize gets started next year
"The first stage of the Automotive X Prize, a $10 million competition to build an ultra-fuel efficient vehicle, will begin in New York next year, officials said Thursday at the New York auto show. The competition offers the prize for the vehicles that meet a benchmark of 100 mpg, while finishing with the fastest times. The challenge is broken into two categories: mainstream and alternative, with the mainstream winner collecting $7.5 million of the bounty."

March 20, 2008
$10 million bounty for super-efficient cars
"The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, modeled after earlier prizes for spaceflight and genetic research, is aimed at promoting the creation of cars that get the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon, while at the same time hitting targets for low greenhouse-gas emissions, safety and affordability."

March 20, 2008
Big Incentive for Fuel-Efficient Vehicle
"The X Prize Foundation, best known for its competitions promoting space flights, is offering $10 million to the teams that can produce the most production-ready vehicles that get 100 miles per gallon or more. The Foundation was to announce the size of the purse and its sponsor, Progressive Casualty Insurance Co., on Thursday at the New York International Auto Show."

March 16, 2008
‘The Amazing Race,’ as Played in the Lab
"...this week, the newest contest — for a drivable, affordable car that gets 100 miles a gallon — will be formally started at the New York International Auto Show. Sponsored by the X Prize Foundation, which is also running the lunar contest, the car contest is really two in one. In 2010, there will be a winner in the “city” category, which permits three-wheelers, and another in a category for four-wheel, four-seat cars."

March 6, 2008
Eyes on the prize: The X Prize aims to do for green cars what it did for space flight
"...all it takes to solve a pressing challenge is to get the word out, attract new minds to a problem — and offer a seriously hefty purse to the first one who comes up with a solution."

March 3, 2008
$10 million up for grabs in international green car competition
"The point isn’t to crown a champion, but to spur innovation and call clean car makers into the spotlight."

January 31, 2008
X Prize program seeks automakers
"The Automotive X Prize group has approached automakers to commit to entering the 10-stage race competition set for early 2010."

January 23, 2008
Mean, green racing machines: £10m prize for the inventor of the world's fastest eco car
"The potential in the...Automotive X Prize is huge. It will have an instant and substantial impact on millions of car-buyers...The last time the automotive industry saw such a radical shake-up was when Henry Ford began mass-producing the Model T..."

January 19, 2008
Green future may be distant US dream
"We're challenging the industry: Can't you deliver something a bit better, a bit sooner?"

January 18, 2008
X Prize Foundation Sponsors Competition to Develop Fuel Efficient Automobile
"If such a vision comes true, the streets of the future may be filled with vehicles that produce little pollution and transport people and cargo safely and inexpensively."

January 16, 2008
Win $10 million by designing a 100 miles per gallon commercial car
"The contest has sparked interest from big automotive companies like Telsa Motors and Aptera Motors, as well as local players like Maine Automotive X."

January 15, 2008
Auto X Prize Targets 100 Miles Per Gallon
"It's not as sexy as flying in space, but a new competition by the X Prize Foundation has the potential to be just as revolutionary: producing mainstream cars that can travel at least 100 miles on a gallon of gas."

January 15, 2008
Teams compete to create efficient vehicles
"One display getting attention at the North American International Auto Show is the showcase for the...Automotive X PRIZE..."

January 13, 2008
The first 100mpg car - now that’s a concept with legs
"The company competing for the main prize must provide an affordable, safe, four-seat family car with the potential to appeal to ordinary buyers and a business plan to produce 10,000 a year."

December 20, 2007
Automotive X Prize Teams Rev Up to Compete
"The aim of the AXP is to prime the market to demand cars that use less oil and produce fewer greenhouse-gas emissions...Who killed the electric car? Who cares. Dangle a $10million carrot and watch as engineers deliver both crackpot schemes and genius innovations, any one of which could upend the existing automotive industry."

October 9, 2007
Automotive X Prize Teams Rev Up to Compete
"While it's hard to imagine a group of college kids or an open-source kit designer taking on the entire auto industry, that may just be what's in store."

September 26, 2007
U.S. Auto Firms Need One Goal: Build the Best!
"Guidelines are being developed and a dollar prize hasn't been announced, so there's still a Google-like opportunity for someone to step in and make this a reality."

September 9, 2007
Fuel Efficiency: the X Factor
"The ultimate idea, he says, is to benefit humanity -- in this case, to reduce our gluttonous consumption of oil and to relieve all of the ills, military and environmental violence chief among them, attached to that appetite."

September 7, 2007
Malcolm Bricklin enters X PRIZE competition with plug-in hybrid design
"Thirty-one teams say they'll line up to compete for at least $10 million by developing a marketable 100-mpg automobile…"

August 22, 2007
Alternative Fuels, Hybrids, and Efficient Vehicles, Oh My!
"All that hybrid technology is confusing right? Well Cristin is here to answer all of our questions and help us navigate through the world of alternative fuels, hybrid technology and true energy efficient vehicle choices."

August 14, 2007
X Prize: High Marks for High Mileage
"Entrants must also be “production capable” based on safety (must be designed to meet safety regulations in the U.S. and other markets), affordability and marketability…and yes, you also have to be the fastest."

August 6, 2007
Plugging In to the Future
"Last week, about 30 groups entered the Automotive X Prize competition, which plans to offer a multimillion dollar reward to entrants..."

August 1, 2007
'Green' Teams Go for Auto Race
"Thirty-one teams say they'll line up to compete for at least $10 million by developing a marketable 100-mpg automobile…"

August 1, 2007
X Prize Competition: Build a 100-MPG Vehicle, Get Millions
"The nonprofit foundation says it will launch the latest X Prize competition as soon as its fund-raising efforts are complete."

August 1, 2007
Automotive X Prize seeks winning 100 mpg car
"The people who brought us the $10 million prize for the first team to build and fly a private vehicle to space is now seeking a winning 100 mpg vehicle."

May 15, 2008
Tata's 100 Miles Per Gallon Bet
"More than 70 teams from 22 countries around the world have already committed to the contest. But Tata is the first full-line auto company getting into the race."

March 24, 2008
Progressive Thinking
"...auto/energy markets are encumbered by so many barriers to competitive activity that the beneficial forces of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" can't and don't operate effectively."

March 21, 2008
X Prize comes to earth
"The Automotive X Prize, or rather the "Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE", aims to find a realistic super-efficient vehicle. It aims to find cars which actually just go into production, rather than just prototypes showcasing new technology."

March 20, 2008
Officially, official: The Progressive Auto X Prize has now begun
"NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg said some really nice thing about the prize, and his city will kick off the first stage of the competition in September 2009."

March 20, 2008
First the Insurance, Then the Car
"Enter Progressive Insurance. On Thursday, the insurer said it would become the title sponsor of the automotive iteration, which rewards teams that build and bring to market cars that get 100 MPGe, which stands for miles per gallon energy equivalent."

March 20, 2008
X Prize dangles $10 million for fuel-sipping car
"At the New York International Auto Show, the foundation and sponsor Progressive Casualty Insurance announced the newly named Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize. The competition, open to both established automakers and unknown engineers, is meant to result in "real cars" that are available for purchase, rather than concept cars."

March 20, 2008
New X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Cars Announced
"A new X-Prize for ultra fuel efficient cars has been announced...Those that qualify will race their vehicles in cross-country races in 2009 and 2010 that will combine speed, distance, urban driving and overall performance.'"

March 20, 2008
Tesla, Aptera Among the Dozens Vying for the Automotive X-Prize
The Automotive X Prize has announced who's in the race to build a production-ready car that tops 100 mpg, and Tesla Motors, Aptera and German dieselmeisters Loremo are among the 66 entrants.

March 20, 2008
XPrize: $10 Million For 100-MPG Cars
The XPrize Foundation is doing for cars what it has already done for commercial space flight (and is trying to do for human genomics and lunar exploration) -- it is pushing for groundbreaking technical innovation by offering big prize money.

January 24, 2008
Automotive X Prize entries still up for grabs
"Despite all of the environmentally friendly cars shown at the Detroit auto show this year, no imminent production model could be expected to sustain an average of 100 mpg—just one requirement in the Auto X Prize competition..."

January 14, 2008
Inside Eight 100-MPG Plans to Win the Automotive X Prize: Live at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show
"The race for the Automotive X Prize is wide open. With more than 50 teams saying they'll participate, the field showcases a multitude of concepts for engineering a 100-mpg vehicle."

October 5, 2007
Overview: teams competing in the Automotive X PRIZE
"The first batch of entries run the gamut from names that will be familiar to readers... to home-builts..."