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Originally Posted by skyl4rk
Is this event open to the public? I might hypermile my way down there.
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Sorry, you missed the boat big-time. There was a shakedown round in late April, a knockout round in June, and a final knockout round in July, all at the Michigan International Speedway. They did another phase, the coastdown, on August third, and now they're validating all data from the road tests by putting the cars on dynamometers. Their info on validation and how it's being done is nearly non-existent. Here's the link to their detailed information :-)
Competition Schedule | Progressive Automotive XPRIZE
Unfortunately the only way to "go" to the automotive Xprize now is through my blog (
*edit* and Neil's blog below). This is part of why I created it.
It's my "message in a bottle" so to speak. And from what I've dug up, other than Neil's blog, it's the only layperson's in-the-trenches account of what it feels like to experience the Automotive Xprize. That's something I was looking for from the media -- something more detailed, more visceral -- so I managed to create that for myself thanks to Oliver Kuttner from the Edison2 team.
