Awards Ceremony Culminates Multiyear Challenge to Deliver Production-Capable, Super, Fuel Efficient Vehicles. All Finalist Vehicles will be on Site.
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September 02, 2010
September 01, 2010
PLAYA VISTA, CA (September 1, 2010) – Today, the X PRIZE Foundation, an educational non-profit organization that drives innovation...
August 30, 2010
August 30, 2010 (PLAYA VISTA, CA) – The...
August 06, 2010
A CURIOUS cabal gathered recently in a converted warehouse in San Francisco for a private conference. Among them were some of the world’s leading experts in fields ranging from astrophysics and nanotechnology to health and energy. Also attending were...
August 06, 2010
FORTUNE -- The X Prize Foundation is like the X Games of prizes. It's all about paying big bucks to entrepreneurs who develop flashy, disruptive products that push the market, such as commercial spacecrafts and hydrogen cars. It seems logical that the...
July 27, 2010
Lynchburg, Va., is an old river town with a population of fewer than 75,000 people. It's not the kind of place you'd expect to produce a 21st-century car, but entrepreneur Oliver Kuttner thought it was perfect. Warehouse space was cheap, so the...
July 27, 2010
Alan Boyle writes: The $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize competition finished up its final on-track round, and the results are clear: If anyone is going to win the $5 million contest for four-seat cars, it's going to be the Virginia...
July 13, 2010
LYNCHBURG, VA. -- Mechanic Bobby Mouzayck, 28, stands inside a former textile factory staring ruefully at the shell of something that looks like a cockpit that's missing the rest of the airplane. "I'm so tired of looking at this thing," says Mouzayck...
July 07, 2010
The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, which was formally started at the 2008 New York auto show, is finally getting down to business. The competition was created by the X Prize Foundation, which also held a similar challenge for space travel....
June 14, 2010
ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen. While the flesh-and...
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