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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
To expect that the X-Prize should have already resulted in a production car is expecting too much, in my opinion.
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Is it really ?
The goal and selection criteria was to have a production-capable vehicle.
http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org...ines_V_1.3.pdf
A ten million dollar cash purse will be awarded to the teams that win a long-distance stage race for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 miles-per-gallon energy equivalent (MPGe – see below). Both new vehicles and modifications of existing vehicles may enter.
I guess I've seen the Loremo story happen a bit too often.
They had a running prototype, then all went downhill. Fast.