100 MPG - $10 Million contest
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100 MPG - $10 Million contest
http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretran...?currentPage=1
Perhaps it is time to stop speculating on a future high efficiency vehicle and make one happen. Anyone in North Alabama interested in giving this a shot?
Bob Wilson
. . . Known as the AXP, the competition will award at least $10 million to the team that builds a 100-mpg machine and then wins a race against other green vehicles. Some 43 teams are already working on their rides, even though the competition won't be formally announced until early 2008. A qualifying race in 2009 will serve as a proof-of-concept shakedown, and then, in 2010, the remaining squads will go after the big money. Smith is convinced that the plug-in hybrid electric car he's building has a shot.
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The rules, which will be finalized later this year, have three broad components: efficiency (cars must get at least 100 miles per gallon); emissions (cars must produce less than 200 grams of greenhouse gases per mile); and economic viability (mass production of the cars has to be feasible, and the company has to have a plan to make 10,000 a year). It's this last point — that a winning vehicle has to be safe, comfortable, and ready to be mass-manufactured at a reasonable cost — that will separate the fantasy-mobiles from those that could actually be put into production and sold for a profit. "We do not want toys," says S. M. Shahed, a Honeywell corporate fellow who, as a past president of the International Society of Automotive Engineers, serves as an adviser to the AXP. In other words, a one-off, carbon-fiber-ensconced motorized recumbent bicycle isn't going to cut it.
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The rules, which will be finalized later this year, have three broad components: efficiency (cars must get at least 100 miles per gallon); emissions (cars must produce less than 200 grams of greenhouse gases per mile); and economic viability (mass production of the cars has to be feasible, and the company has to have a plan to make 10,000 a year). It's this last point — that a winning vehicle has to be safe, comfortable, and ready to be mass-manufactured at a reasonable cost — that will separate the fantasy-mobiles from those that could actually be put into production and sold for a profit. "We do not want toys," says S. M. Shahed, a Honeywell corporate fellow who, as a past president of the International Society of Automotive Engineers, serves as an adviser to the AXP. In other words, a one-off, carbon-fiber-ensconced motorized recumbent bicycle isn't going to cut it.
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Bob Wilson
#3
Re: 100 MPG - $10 Million contest
from my most conservative estimates:
the company has to have a plan to make 10,000 a year
I think us little guys are out of the race. I'll keep playing the Lotto.
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Re: 100 MPG - $10 Million contest
Bob- What can I do to help?
We need more data on the rules.
If we only need to drive 100 miles per day, I already can have a car for you ( mass produced ) that can do this.
Plug In Hybrid Escape = 140 MPG city / 90 MPG Hwy, ~ 100 MPG combined.
Plug In Prius is about the same.
We need more data on the rules.
If we only need to drive 100 miles per day, I already can have a car for you ( mass produced ) that can do this.
Plug In Hybrid Escape = 140 MPG city / 90 MPG Hwy, ~ 100 MPG combined.
Plug In Prius is about the same.
Last edited by gpsman1; 01-01-2008 at 09:54 PM.
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Re: 100 MPG - $10 Million contest
The only source I know is to work from the 'Wired' article and Goggle up related links. The 'Wired' article mentions a spreadsheet used to calculate the carbon footprint. Before anything else, that would be the first place to start.
I think this should be considered something apart from this contest. Hopefully I'll be able to test some ideas this year using my NHW11.
Bob Wilson
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