My Prius gets 65 MPG! Well big hairy deal. Next years car will get 100 MPG….guaranteed! The real news is the $10 Million purse the X PRIZE Foundation will give to the first company to produce a vehicle to break that golden 100 Mile Per Gallon barrier. This foundation is the same that recently paid…you guessed it….$10 million for the first suborbital space flight a few years back. X PRIZE is dedicated to offering large amounts of money to make huge leaps for humanity.
Since Space the Final Frontier has been conquered…might as well solve the gas crisis. Damn….why did I skip Auto Shop Class! I could be rich…..maybe not….you can bet that the big auto makers are already on the case. The Announcement was made at the New York International Auto Show a few months back. And even the Mayor Bloomberg gave his 2 cents on the prize: “Development of a super-efficient car would be a major step forward in the fight against global warming – and it would help us reach our goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in New York City by 30 percent by 2030.” Please…..by 2030 we are going to be oil free.
It always seems like America is a little behind the times. Why shoot for 100 MPG….that seems easily within reach. I mean we already have Electric cars, Vegetable Oil powered cars, and so on running around. And a plug in Hybrid can already achieve close to those numbers. Gas is a thing of the past! In 2009 a cross-country race will determine the winner of the Progressive Automotive X Prize. Check out their website for more info. http://www.xprize.org/x-prizes/automotive-x-prize
Yes! Thank you X-Prize foundation!!