Progressive Automotive X PRIZE

Final Day of Finals -- Teams on the Homestretch for Multi-Million Dollar Prize Purses

Finals photo The first week of Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE finals brought the competitive field from 15 vehicles at the start of the week to 11 vehicles by the end of the day on Friday 7/23. After a weekend away from the track, the remaining competitors have once again taken the track for the Dynamic Safety tests today. Teams demonstrated that they could meet requirements for 0 - 60mph acceleration, 60 - 0mph braking, and accident avoidance tests. 

Two additional teams have been eliminated (preliminary) from the competition after today's events: Western Washington University and the Edison2 #95 car. The WWU Viking 45 vehicle did not pass the accident avoidance test within the 6 attempt limit (they did complete the course on attempt #9), and the Edison2 #95 car had mechanical troubles that prevented it from completing the day's tests. 

This brings us to the exciting final day of the finals event. Nine vehicles remain: 2 Edison2 vehicles in the mainstream class, 2 X-Tracer vehicles in alternative tandem, and 5 competitors in the alternative side-by-side category (Aptera, Li-ion Motors, RaceAbout, Zap, and TW4XP). Teams will compete in a timed event called the "Combined Efficiency and Performance Test", in which they will travel a minimum of 100 miles for the alternative classes and 200 miles for the mainstream class. Teams may not exceed 70mph, but the total time to complete the course and MPGe will be important factors that will be considered when determining the winning vehicle for each class. Live telemetry and a webcast of the event will take place on Tuesday, 7/27, starting at 8am EDT. Please visit http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/live to tune in for the action, and watch for updates on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr!  

Posted by Amanda Stiles on July 26, 2010 at 04:06 PM in Automotive Industry, Education & Outreach, Media, Science & Technology, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Join our Team & Take the Challenge!

The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE invites you to become a member of our team – our Carbonrally team.  We are excited to be leading a team on Carbonrally.com, a website that develops honor-based competitions that call for small changes, which lead to big impacts.

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While X PRIZEs are focused on making big impacts, many supporters have asked how they can make a difference on a day-to-day level.  Even small efforts can have a huge effect.  Carbonrally not only challenges people to make these small changes, but it tracks the collective impact of these changes so that people can see exactly what they have accomplished. Bit by bit, based upon their participation, the Carbonrally community learns the connections between climate and lifestyle, and rack-up literally tons of carbon benefits along the way.

 

In addition to becoming a part of our Carbonrally team, we invite you to participate in the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE sponsored Lowrider Challenge.  This challenge helps participants to understand how to gain fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. 

We hope that you invest 5 minutes to accept our invitation to become a part of the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE Carbonrally team and register to take the Lowrider Challenge.  

 

Here’s how it works:

 

To start:

1.    Join the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE Carbonrally team

2.    Take the Lowrider Challenge and start saving fuel and reducing carbon emissions

 If you want to do more:

3.    Visit the Carbonrally Challenge tab to learn about and participate in more challenges.  A new featured challenge is posted every few weeks. Most challenges are easy, short-term actions, and are categorized by transport, school or office, home, food, wild card, and date.

4.    Do you have an idea of your own?  Carbonrally allows the public to propose great ideas for saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.  The Carbonrally community votes on the best ideas to become Featured Challenges.  We want to sponsor and participate in lots of automotive-related challenges in order to educate the public about the immediate impact that they can have. Share your idea by visiting the Carbonrally Workshop page. Then, let us know that your idea has been posted by leaving a comment on the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE Team page and we will get out the word for people to vote on it.

5.    Do you want to know how the team is doing? Carbonrally tracks the collective impacts, which reveals the power of many people acting together to get the job done.  Visit Carbonrally.com to track our progress by teams, members, and locations.

6.    Invite friends, family, co-workers, or share broadly. The more people who participate on the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE Carbonrally team, the greater difference we can make. 

 

Join our team and lead the charge to educate the public about how small changes can have a huge impact.

Posted by Mark German on June 30, 2009 at 05:29 PM in Education & Outreach, Energy & Environment, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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