August 7, 2007
X Prize on 100 MPG
"Although 100 m.p.g. is getting the media hype, the Auto X Prize is actually a race; 100 m.p.g. is just one of the criteria to qualify."

August 2, 2007
$10 Million for First 100 mpg Car
"They also have to complete a long-distance staged race, so the cars will have to be durable as well as frugal. Oh, did we mention they also must be low emission vehicles with a real business plan?"

August 1, 2007
Ladies and Gentlemen, Plug in Your Engines
"The first 30 teams have been announced in the Automotive X Prize, and that brings up one question: Where are the carmakers?"

August 1, 2007
Automotive X-Prize announces first 31 teams accepted to competition
"According to organizers over 300 teams have expressed interest in the competition and are considering jumping in."

June 4, 2007
Competitors start engines in... race for fuel efficiency
"Though the nonprofit X PRIZE Foundation has not formally announced the competing teams yet, some have been working for months."

May 29, 2007
Inventors to race for millions in auto efficiency prize
"... a worldwide challenge for teams to come up with an efficient car model that can be mass produced."

May 20, 2007
Automotive X PRIZE Seeks 100-MPG Car
"If there is a gauntlet that you think needs picking up, start by throwing it down. The Automotive X Prize has done just that."

May 18, 2007
Bill Clinton's Speech at the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York City
"The X PRIZE has offered $10M to anyone who can come up with a 100 MPG vehicle that can be commercially produced." (audio)

May 2007
Eyes on the Prize
"The impetus for the session – and the Auto X Prize itself – is the growing awareness of climate change. How to spur radically reduced energy use and carbon dioxide emissions? Offer people money!"

April 19, 2007
Prize Fighters
"Enough already with the concept cars and science-fair experiments; what we need is a moonshot, but a privately funded one. That's the concept behind the Automotive X-Prize."

April 6, 2007
NY Auto Show/Green Cars
"...the folks that brought us into space with the Ansari X Prize will award the Auto X Prize to a car that gets 100 miles per gallon."

April 5, 2007
Green Celebrities, Big Money, and Fast Cars
"Innovative strategies for shifting our economy, society, and personal lifestyles in a more environmentally conscious direction are generating a lot of excitement."

April 4, 2007
X-Prize Sets Sights on 100 mpg Cars
"Today the Automotive X-Prize went live, as the foundation unveiled the contest's rules at the New York Auto show. The multi-million-dollar prize will go to the designer of a production-ready car that gets better than 100 miles per gallon."

April 4, 2007
X Prize to Inspire Super-Efficient Vehicles
"The so-called "Automotive X Prize" will be a catalyst for practical innovations and may cause revolutionary changes in an industry fueled largely by non-renewable energy sources."

April 4, 2007
Mark Goodstein & The Automotive X Prize
"Hey pinewood derby veterans: Can you build an affordable, attractive, and super-efficient car? If you can, Mark Goodstein and the Automotive X Prize will pay you 10 million bucks, and in doing so will spur innovation quickly, through competition."

April 3, 2007
Next X Prize: Build a pratical, hyperefficient car
"...most technical advances in engines have gone to improve performance rather than fuel economy, experts say. Now there may be a chance to change that dynamic."

April 3, 2007
Rev Up Your Fuel-Efficient Engines
"...industry insiders heralded the contest, saying it's just the boost that could help push high-mileage technologies, such as electric cars or plug-in hybrids, into the mass market."

April 2, 2007
Mark Goodstein on the Ed Schultz Show
"Mark Goodstein of Automotive X PRIZE joins Ed Schultz to discuss their plan to award [the prize] to a company that can build cars that will exceed 100 miles per gallon."

April 2, 2007
Seeking a Car That Gets 100 Miles a Gallon
"...if the Automotive X Prize works as intended, that problem could be resolved much faster than the industry might on its own."

April 2, 2007
Race for a Green Car
"The competition aims to prompt the car industry to take some chances, says Goodstein."

April 2, 2007
Multimillion-Dollar Automotive X PRIZE Aims for Vehicles That Make 100-Plus MPG
"What this means to you: Don't bring your "science project." This is a serious competition aimed at serious inventors."

April 2, 2007
X Prize revs up quest for super-efficient cars
"The contest will require vehicles to meet tough emission requirements and get 100 miles per U.S. gallon (about 42 kilometres a litre)."

March 30, 2007
Auto X PRIZE Revs Up
"It's a tall order to create a contest that will truly reward breakthroughs in what's already one of America's biggest economic sectors."

March 21, 2007
Super-High-Mileage Cars
"The crew that mounted the $10 million dollar X Prize for the first reusable private spacecraft is now looking to America's highways, at global warming, and at American cars ... They want a real, salable car – that brings a revolution in mileage." (audio)

March 15, 2007
The Next Silicon Idol
"The X-Prize Competition is offering a significant cash prize to the developer of a 100-mile-per-gallon car, with Tom Vander Ark, X-Prize Foundation and CNBC's Maria Bartiromo" (video)

March 12, 2007
Start Your Engines
"The hope is that the Automotive X PRIZE will goad the automakers into action...The prize could also fire the imaginations of grease monkeys and homegrown enthusiasts...That is, perhaps, the best sign of the strength of the X PRIZEs: the proliferation of technologies and projects already working toward the award's main objectives."

March 7, 2007
A production capable car with 100 mpg?
Automotive X PRIZE Executive Director Mark Goodstein is interviewed by Jay Leno at Jay's Garage.

January 9, 2007
$100 Million Prize for a Practical Electric Car: Are We There Yet?
"The bottom line: If anyone out there agrees with me but actually has the means to help AXP make a difference for the world by offering an enormous prize, I hope you'll get behind it. Even though everyone can make a difference, some of us can make more of a difference than others!"

December, 2006
Getting off oil
"In 2007 the Automotive X Prize will start moving such designs to market. Just in America, they will ultimately save 8m barrels of oil a day—equivalent to finding a new, secure and inexhaustible Saudi Arabia under Detroit."

September 2006
The Race to 100 MPG
"Gas prices are up, fuel economy is down--but the brightest minds in auto technology are about to do something about it...The race should heat up further when the X Prize Foundation -- the group that kick-started the space-tourism industry with its $10 million competition to produce a reusable private spacecraft -- announces in the next few months a competition for the first car to break 100 miles per gallon..."

August 24, 2006
How About a $100 Million Prize for Developing a Practical Electric Car?
"The program is still in its formative stages and the contest criteria have yet to be set. Nor has the prize amount been fixed, though something on the order of $25 million has been tossed around in the media....achieving this particular innovation, a potential replacement for the gasoline-powered automobile, is too important to skimp on...more support is needed for the Automotive X Prize - much more."

August 3, 2006
Prizes which inspire humanity
"...an Automotive X-Prize just might be a way to get people to listen, because 'American drivers will not be cajoled or lectured into buying more efficient vehicles--but they will drive a winner!"

May 8, 2006
The Next X-Prize
"The challenge: Build the world's most fuel-efficient production car -- one that gets maybe 250 miles per gallon and causes little or no pollution. The payoff: prize money from the group that awarded $10 million for the world's first private spaceflight two years ago... Proponents say it's a cheaper and faster way to unhook America from its oil dependency..."

March 31, 2006
X PRIZE Foundation Challenges Innovation at SAE Congress
"...Goodstein's organization believes the technology exists to mass produce hyper-efficient vehicles, but the industry has been slow-moving and many obstacles must be overcome. This makes the automotive industry ripe for a very challenging prize, like the X PRIZE, that rewards private-sector innovation..."

March 10, 2006
Want to Win $25 Million?
"The foundation that sponsored a $10-million prize for a private reusable spaceship will be offering a $25-million award for the first mass-produced vehicle that offers a revolutionary jump in fuel efficiency. The California-based X Prize Foundation is still fleshing out the rules and the goals for its competition, but began with the idea of a prize to any group that sells 10,000 vehicles capable of 250 miles to the gallon..."

May 6, 2007
Automotive X-Prize Spurs Innovation and Education
"I have to say that I was blown away by the quality and thoroughness of the draft guidelines and how they have really thought through a lot of issues and kept their goals in mind at all times."

May 4, 2007
X marks fuel efficiency
"What makes the competition intriguing is that the group is interested it marketable, even fun cars, not boring science experiments. And besides, we know a few Detroit-area automakers that could use the cash."

April 12, 2007
Auto X Prize to reward 100-mpg car
"...one of the least noticed stories to emerge from the show, but it could have the biggest impact....X Prize representatives were talking to automakers and industry bigwigs about this proverbial race to save the planet."

April 9, 2007
Automotive X-Prize: Preliminary Guidelines Released
"...the X PRIZE Foundation is taking a step toward launching the AXP that will inspire super-efficient vehicles that exceed 100 miles per gallon (2.35 liters per 100km) or its equivalent."

April 5, 2007
The Cars of Tomorrow
"While the X Prize foundation feels that there is a lot of creative things going on in the world of alternative-fuel cars, things aren't moving fast enough..."

April 3, 2007
X Prize for a 100-MPG Car
"The Foundation now plans to offer millions for the first practical car that increases mileage five-fold."

April 3, 2007
Automotive X-Prize releases rules for 2009 race
"...they really want cars that can actually be produced. No science fiction one-offs here. Split into two classes, two races are planned for sometime in 2009 to evaluate the projects."

April 2, 2007
The Car You Won't Own
"But I think it’s obvious that if the oil companies wanted the car companies to make fuel-efficient cars that also looked good, it would have happened by now."

April 1, 2007
The Automotive X Prize: Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Ingenuity
"It's about bringing to market comfortable, affordable vehicles that can be built using current technology and sold successfully to today's consumers."

February 27, 2007
Automotive X PRIZE Builds Momentum
"The rules for the Automotive X Prize are still being fine-tuned. But Goodstein says they are about 80 percent finalized. The rules will be released for public comment in April, likely at the New York Auto Show...The Automotive X prize competition should give those brilliant minds a practical showcase and testbed for many of their ideas and technologies."

August 16, 2006
Want to Win $25 Million?
"At the end of July, the Auto X Prize's website went live, but a lot of information on the Prize has not yet been released. Mark Goodstein is Executive Director of the Auto X Prize, and we tracked him down to get more details. Goodstein answered AutoblogGreen's questions about the Auto X Prize, the future of driving green..."

August 11, 2006
All Eyes on 100 MPG Prize
"Whoever wins the race to create a 100-MPG vehicle will be pocketing a few million bucks. The Automotive X-Prize, run by the same folks who gave a lift to space tourism, will go to the first company that brings a 100+ MPG vehicle to market...This private sector initiative might just do the trick in getting entrepreneurs to do what the auto industry (which scoffs at a few million bucks) hasn't done."

July 27, 2006
The Automotive X Prize
"They expect entrants to come from the private sector as well as automotive suppliers and maybe a few OEMs. Goodstein says that the rules for the prize may be announced later this year. And tentative plans for the first rally-type event to test entrant's prototypes could happen by 2008."

July 26, 2006
Automotive X Prize Website Launches
"Automotive X Prize, designed to break our oil dependence and the climate change that results from burning that oil...The Automotive X PRIZE will invite teams from around the world to focus on a single goal: design, build and sell super-efficient cars that people want to buy."