June 4, 2009
Multiple headlights aim at the prize for 100 mpg cars that can be commercially produced
"The judging begins this month for 136 vehicles competing for the Progressive Automotive X Prize… The first round of judging will narrow down the teams eligible to move into the more rigorous competitive tests scheduled to take place between May and August 2010."

May 22, 2009
A Cleaner, More Efficient and Safer Energy Future
"With this week's White House announcement calling for national fuel efficiency and emissions standards, and the introduction of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454), it is clear that automotive and environmental policy are in the spotlight, and the line between the two is fading."

April 8, 2009
Innovation: 100-mpg car contest under starters orders
"Last night in California a list of 111 teams was announced – one of which may hold the key to motoring's green future... Notable by their absence were the world's largest car manufacturers – bar Indian firm Tata – who don't seem interested in taking part... But you can be sure that the auto giants will be closely watching the progress of entrants through the design judging and performance testing phases planned for this year, as well as the race events scheduled to start in 2010."

April 6, 2009
Teams Race to Build Super-Fuel-Efficient Car
"A field of 111 teams -- ranging India's Tata Motors Ltd., Silicon Valley startup Tesla Motors Inc. and a team backed by musician Neil Young -- will compete for a $10 million prize to build a practical vehicle capable of getting the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon of gas..."

March 26, 2009
Where are they Now? 9 Auto X Prize Team Updates
"With the close of the Progressive Automotive X Prize entry just last month, the racing teams enter the final stretch of the design and preparation phase.... Here’s a look at what the X Prize teams have been doing—and how far they have to go—to prepare for race day."

January 9, 2009
Detroit automakers urged to enter X Prize race
"The $10 million Progressive Automotive X Prize wants Detroit's Big Three automakers and other major companies to take part in its road race next year to see who can build a vehicle that gets 100 miles per gallon."

November 21, 2008
LA Auto Show: For 22 Competitors, the Auto X PRIZE Race Is On
"The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize announced the first 22 competitors granted registered team status. They had cleared the first hurdle in a quest to win the $10 million prize for designing a clean and superefficient car of the future."

November 17, 2008
The Greenest Americans and the $10 Million Greenest Car Competition
"David Steinman and Cristin Lindsay, senior director of the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE at
the X PRIZE Foundation, discuss the $10 million competition"

November 13, 2008
Boyz Under The Hood
"Now the team is racing to prove their cars — and themselves — to the world. They're the dark horse entrants in the Progressive Automotive X-Prize: a worldwide contest to build a car, suitable for mass production, that gets 100 miles per gallon."

October 29, 2008
Long May You Run: Neil Young’s Eco-Lincoln
"Merely trying to produce a 100-miles-per-gallon vehicle is challenging enough, but the Goodwin-Young team intends to win the Automotive X Prize…"

September 27, 2008
GM expects the Volt to be 100-mpg certified
"Organizers of the X Prize have proposed mpge as a new measure of efficiency…"

September 8th, 2008
Win-win
"Necessity, the saying goes, is the mother of invention. But in a world where necessities are taken care of, competition may be the next best thing."

August 3, 2008
Racing for 100-mpg prize
"Around the world, scores of tinkerers and millionaires are busy in their garages, pushing hard against the laws of physics and the envelope of automotive engineering."

July 23, 2008
Interview: Driving towards the 100-mpg car
"John Shore, the Auto X Prize competition's senior director and previously a US Navy research physicist and software entrepreneur told Max Glaskin about his hopes for the new contest and how the winners will be decided."

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..."

June 16, 2008
Neil Young has a bad case of the greens
"Neil Young is a contestant and said "I think that the time when music could change the world is past, it’s up to science, physics and spirituality to save the planet."

June 10, 2008
Entries Arriving for Progressive Automotive X PRIZE
"Will your next car get one hundred miles per gallon? Bloomberg Boot Camp, a report on today's technology. They may not be on the market in time to be your next car…..but perhaps…the one after that."

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."

May 25, 2009
Automotive X Prize Is Full of Surprises
"It’s no surprise the folks behind the Progressive Automotive X Prize are thrilled by President Obama’s tough new fuel economy standards. After all, they’ve got 136 vehicles racing to build the world’s first mass-produced car capable of triple-digit fuel economy."

April 8, 2009
Final Automotive X Prize entries announced
"On the one-year anniversary of the official launch of the Progressive Automotive X Prize, the final entries have been revealed. They represent 111 registered teams from 11 countries who have committed to building a vehicle that gets 100 mpg."

April 7, 2009
Full List of Automotive X PRIZE Teams Released, Includes Aptera, Tesla, Tata
"Tesla, Aptera, and Tata Motors announced their intentions to compete for the Automotive X PRIZE long ago, but now the Foundation that awards the prize has released the full list of 111 registrants for the competition. The teams come from 11 countries and have entered a total of 136 vehicles--80 in the four-seater mainstream class ($7.5 million prize), and 56 in the two-seater alternate class ($2.5 million prize)."

April 7, 2009
Exclusive Look at New Fuel-Efficient Cars, Inside the Progressive Automotive X Prize
"Take a look at the video below for an exclusive collection of the weirdest, wildest automobiles on the planet. The Progressive Automotive X Prize has gotten every arm of auto-mobility -- from big carmakers to eccentric backyard tinkerers -- in hot pursuit of $10 million in prize money."

March 4, 2009
Auto X Prize Deadline has passed; Thoughts on the Purse Split
"The Automotive X Prize's deadline for registration has passed and now we get to wait and see just who's going to be actually participating in the upcoming high-mileage competition. The organizers say that the last few days and hours before the deadline were "an absolute firestorm of phone calls, emails, and overnight packages."

February 20, 2009
Consumer Reports To Test Auto X Prize Cars
"As the 'official active safety testing partner,' Consumer Reports will conduct all of the pre-race safety inspections...That's cool, but not so cool as the announcement that Consumer Reports will begin using the "miles per gallon energy equivalent" standard..."

February 18, 2009
Automotive X PRIZE Deadline Draws Near
"So far, about 40 vehicles have been entered in the competition, and the X Prize Foundation expects to have 50 entrants by the Feb. 28 sign-up deadline."

February 4, 2009
Automotive X PRIZE Draws 25 Teams So Far
"The Progressive Automotive X-Prize has drawn competitors from around the world, and the teams include college kids and India's largest automaker. The cars they're building use every drivetrain technology short of hydrogen fuel cells, and most of them look like something you'd want to drive."

February 3, 2009
Auto X PRIZE, DOE Launch Fuel Our Future Student Website
"Know anyone who's in school? The Progressive Automotive X Prize (AXP) launched a new website today that targets K-12 students in the U.S. with information about the vehicles and fuels of the future. It's called, ta-da, Fuel Our Future Now."

January 22, 2009
The Car of the Future Promised for October
"Aptera Motors has rolled out the first pre-production model of the 2e, an all-electric three-wheeled two-seater that gets the equivalent of 200 mpg and goes 100 miles on a charge. It's a significant milestone for the Southern California startup, which plans to put the first cars in driveways by Halloween and looks like a contender to win the $10 million Progressive Automotive X Prize."

November 24, 2008
‘Stealth’ teams enter the race for a 100-mpg car
"As this XPrizecars blog noticed, although 22 teams are registered, only 20 have been identified. The organizers say only that the others "have been accepted, but remain confidential". The blog suggests the "stealth" teams could be Fisker - known to be working on plug-in hybrids - or even auto giant GM."

November 24, 2008
Suspense Builds in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE ‘Green Prix’
"Twenty-two contenders have been accepted to registered team status since the multimillion dollar competition designed to inspire a new generation of viable, super fuel-efficient vehicles was announced in March."

October 27, 2008
Home-Built Car Averages 113 Miles a Gallon
"More than two decades later, Mr. Henderson and the Avion have been granted another shot at fame and fortune. On Oct. 11, he drove an updated version of the Avion through Washington state — a total of 263 miles and he said the car averaged 113.1 miles a gallon."

July 7, 2008
At least 14 cities vying for an Auto X Prize stage race in 2009-2010
"The X Prize organizers announced yesterday that "interest is high" in hosting some of the events in between the coasts, and listed 14 cities that have said they'd like to host a stage race…"

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."