Chief Prognosticator

Progressive Automotive X PRIZE

Leave it up to those great folks at the X Prize Foundation to do it again.

First it was their $10 million competition to promote private Suborbital Spaceflight. That contest was of course won by Burt Rutan with his spacecraft SpaceShipOne on Oct.4, 2004.

There has been others in medicine and moon landings (see The Google Lunar X PRIZE), but now there is a really timely one:

The Automotive X PRIZE (AXP)

The main objective is to create a production-commercial viable car that gets 100 MPG (2.35 liter/100 kilometer). Judging the winner isn’t straight forward — it will be a combination of an endurance race, the viability of the business plan, and the emissions of the vehicle. What a great idea!