Earlier this week, Nick Bunkley of the New York Times reported that the X Prize Foundation is sponsoring a competition with an expected prize of $10 million to produce a car that travels 100 miles on a single gallon of gas. The purpose of the prize is to stimulate innovation and ultimately boost the average fuel economy of vehicles which has topped out at around 20 miles a gallon. Damox’s Car Blog notes that there is one important catch: “the car must be commercially viable. That means no complicated materials that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and none of those silly one-person pod cars that are unsafe and undesirable.”
Stay up to Date
Follow on Twitter
Share on Facebook
What You’re Saying
-
Eddy van Beeck The 10 year old has the best idea no cars but space for everything else make him Chief of Urban Planning;.
How Bogotá Is Turning 7,000 Citizen Proposals into a Real Plan to Redesign a Major Thoroughfare · last month
-
Gyane Haobijam AQI India is already providing the real-time air quality data of cities, states and countries with Prana Air -
Making Air Quality Data Available to All: WRI, Development Seed, OpenAQ Partner to #FixtheAQGap · last month
friedtea15 How do you derive that from No.4? If anything, it presents more opportunities to design space for the mobility impaired. In the land of 6-lane road...
6 Ways to Make City Streets Safer for Pedestrians · 2 months ago
-
Blogroll
- C40 Cities
- CEOs for Cities
- Citiscope
- CityLab
- CityTalk
- CityTalk USA (ICLEI)
- Cooltown Studios
- Future Cape Town
- Gehl Live (Gehl Architects)
- Insights (World Resources Institute)
- Next City
- Places Wire
- Planetizen
- Project for Public Spaces
- Shareable: Cities
- Smart Cities Dive
- Sustainable Cities (World Bank)
- The Dirt (American Society of Landscape Architects)
- The Guardian Cities
- The Transport Politic
- TheCityFix Brasil
- TheCityFix Mexico
- TheCityFix Turkiye
- Transport for Development (World Bank)
- Treehugger
- URBANET
- Velo Mondial
- WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities