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Wired
December 20, 2007
Eric Hagerman |
1 Gallon of Gas, 100 Miles -- $10 Million: The Race to Build the Supergreen Car The Automotive X Prize will award at least $10 million to the team that builds a 100-mpg machine and then wins a race against other green vehicles.   |
Popular Mechanics
March 21, 2008
Masamitsu & Sullivan |
Automotive X Prize Revs Up for 100-mpg Race (With Video!) The X Prize Foundation threw its official coming-out party yesterday for a 100-mpg challenge that could upend the automotive industry. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
John Voelcker |
Eyes on the Prize Here, the author sits in on energy equivalence debates -- with millions of dollars for a "100 mpg car" riding on the results. The impetus for the session -- and the Auto X Prize itself -- is the growing awareness of climate change. |
Fast Company
March 1, 2007
Tracy Staedter |
Open Source for the Open Road A former BMW employee who now owns an automobile consulting firm in Germany is trading in the conventional car-manufacturing paradigm for a new model -- this one rooted in open-source collaboration. |
Popular Mechanics
May 1, 2008 |
Top 10 Early Contenders for the Automotive X Prize West Philly EVX... Velozzi Supercar... Loremo LS... Motive Switch... VentureOne... Fuel Vapor ale... Phoenix SUT... Hybrid Tech... Tesla WhiteStar... Aptera Typ-1... |
Geotimes
November 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Sustainable Mobility: Hybrid Vehicles Compete An interview with a Virginia Tech graduate student in mechanical engineering about his team's accomplishments, the place of alternative fuels and new technology in the future, and what he's gained from the Challenge X experience. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
John Voelcker |
Plug-ins and Hybrids and Diesels, Oh My! Two automotive conferences show the impact of public policy on core vehicle designs |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
Lawrence Ulrich |
Carbon-Fiber Cars BMW will introduce the first affordable cars made with superlight carbon composites. Government fuel-economy regulations are largely driving this structural revolution, making "lightweighting" one of the biggest automotive trends around the world. |
BusinessWeek
May 22, 2006
Welch & Aston |
Fill 'Er Up -- But With What? An alternative to gasoline is inevitable, but it won't come anytime soon for Americans. Here's why. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
John Blau |
Carbon Caps Coming For European Cars Transportation is the one sector of the European economy where carbon emissions have been rising rapidly. A strict emissions cap of 120 grams would rule out most models that carmakers Audi, BMW, and Mercedes now produce, not to mention Porsche, the biggest carbon emitter. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2008
Jill Jusko |
Steeling a Peak at Future Steel Vehicles Vehicle technologies will respond to the challenge of increasing fuel efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. |
IndustryWeek
April 21, 2010
Steve Minter |
Charged Up About Electric Cars Household names and newcomers alike are racing to develop cars that offer freedom from the gas pump. |
Chemistry World
June 7, 2012
Andrew Turley |
Plastics makers to win from electric cars You need lightweight materials to make a good electric vehicle. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2006
Ben Stewart |
Why Not One Hundred MPG? Where's the magic carburetor? Where's the car that runs on water? Those are just fantasies but listen up: A four-person car that gets 100 mpg really is possible with current technology. Here's how. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007 |
IEEE Spectrum Online: A Blogging Sampler Things You May Not Know About Numbers... Eyes On The Automotive X Prize... |
Popular Mechanics
April 24, 2009
Larry Webster |
The Road to 35 MPG: Analysis From 2009--the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress The real challenge, however, becomes how to combine the various improvements without making cars more expensive. |
National Defense
February 2009
Frodl & Manoyan |
Converting U.S. Car Park to Hybrids Should Be Priority One Reducing personal vehicle demand for gasoline is the quickest and most effective way to cut our consumption of crude oil, and by extension, make our nation more secure. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Where's My Chevette? The economic argument against investing in oil companies suggests that high gasoline prices will cause demand to fall and prices at the pump to recede. But automakers know better and are giving the consumer just what they want -- style and muscle. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2005
John Teresko |
Green Machines With worldwide automobile sales expected to more than double in the next 50 years, the drive for waste reduction is accelerating. When specifying materials, product development staffs must now equally embrace design for disassembly and recycling as well as design for manufacturing. |
BusinessWeek
January 16, 2006
Lee Walczak et al. |
Dream Machines There's a new 'golden age' of automotive design and technology dawning as sales-hungry automakers are innovating at full speed -- and giving buyers the power to shape their vehicles. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2011
David Williamson |
Don't Miss This Coming Trend The market for lightweight auto materials will double in five years. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Why Cash for Clunkers Won't Save the Economy Onerous restrictions make it hard for most to take advantage. |
Popular Mechanics
December 7, 2007 |
Why the New 35-MPG Fuel Economy Standard Is a Bad Idea We shouldn't be forcing automobile manufacturers to make more gas efficient cars, we should be forcing the consumers to buy the gas efficient cars already on the market. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2007
Rich Smith |
Plug It In? If plug-in hybrid cars ever become a reality, they'll open up numerous investing opportunities -- in the automakers, of course; in the ethanol companies, perhaps; in battery makers; but most of all, in electric companies |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2011
Arunava De |
How to Make Green (Investments) in the Automotive Market Green stocks in the automotive industry are thought to be volatile, so can they be relied on over the long run? |
