Gas Mileage Improvements: Can You Win 10 Million Dollars?
August 10, 2008
Improve my gas mileage! That’s the statement that’s been going around since nearly the dawn of the industrial age. Nearly 100 years of just trying to figure out how get further on a gallon of gas.
Gas mileage devices have nearly doubled the gas mileage that cars can get over the last 75 years but progress has been painfully slow. Especially during that last couple of decades which have seen virtually no change.
Enter the Auto X Prize competition sponsored by the Progressive auto insurance company. The contest is now underway to build the first 100 mpg car. The contest officially launched in March but you have plenty of time to still get in the race.
A $10 million dollar prize is up for grabs folks and the first person or company who can demonstrate a 100mpg in cross-country races will take home the prize.
The races are scheduled to begin in 2009 so if you are game to invent the first car that can provide a solution to the “improve my gas mileage” demands of decades, get building!
This brings us to the questions as to whether you think you have what it is going to take, what are the exact rules to get into this game and what are the ultimate goals.
Well, of course, the main goals are obvious. We need super energy efficient cars that will not only clean up our environment but also break our dependence on foreign oil. And at the top of the list? Improve my gas mileage!
The winning car will demonstrate an easy concept and something that is simple to understand. Something along the line of a car that you and I could actually work on. Is that even possible now days?
It needs to be a car that will benefit the entire world and as such this will be global competition. Anyone anywhere can enter. No matter where you come from, your brains are welcome.
The car that wins must be something we can all buy. If your idea is still a concept car, that won’t work. It must be ready to be produced.
The other rules of engagement include independent and fair non-partisan contestants and must provide clear understanding of the emissions, safety, fuel efficiency, performance and a couple other technical boundaries.
Don’t get hung up on the technicals. If you can build something that you can enter and it is capable of being manufactured then all shade tree mechanics world wide need to get busy!
The implications of such a contest are huge! Not only for the winners of the contest but for the entire world in general.
Think of how life could change for you and how the far reaching effects of such an advancement would benefit other industries changing our world before our eyes.
There’s lots more information about this on the net if you know where to start searching so get those fingers and eyeballs working. You never know. Maybe you will be the one to give us all the gas mileage improvement we all really need.
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