One of the more interesting cars unveiled at this week's SEMA show is the Inizio by Li-Ion Motors (pronounced like the big cat). We last encountered Li-Ion at the Automotive X Prize, where their smaller commuter car, the Wave...

After Edison2, Li-ion Motors, and X-Tracer drove away with the $10 million prize money last week, another 21 Automotive X Prize finalists went home to lick their wounds, tell their war stories, and most of all to try to...

BMW Isetta 250 The Automotive X Prize cars may get 100 miles to the equivalent of a gallon of gas, but they sure look strange to drivers used to today's cars. "Whether we'll be driving these exact cars in...

Automotive X Prize winners in Washington, D.C.Photo: Automotive X Prize The Automotive X Prize competition to build 100-mpg-equivalent cars ended yesterday, with prizes awarded in all three classes. (Read: "100-mpg winners announced.") Should such lofty efficiency goals become a...

After an intense competition to build the car of the future, the Automotive X Prize winners were announced in a hot and packed ceremony in Washington DC today. In the ultra-competitive Alternative Side-by-Side class, the competition came down to...

The winners of the Automotive X Prize are due to be announced Thursday in Washington, D.C., bringing to a close an intense competition that has seen much innovation and sacrifice. The “prize” will award up to $10 million to...

Option 1: Letters Today the government proposed new fuel economy labels for the 2012 model year that will accommodate electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. There are two different proposals being offered to the public for consideration before about Nov....

In covering the Automotive X Prize, we saw over 100 teams enter the competition with innovative approaches to achieving the equivalent of 100-mpg. One promising team that we watched closely made it heartbreakingly close to the finish line: Western...

The Automotive X Prize teams competing for the $10 million prize have moved on to the Validation stage this month, where their fuel economy and emissions will be retested on a stationary dynamometer at Argonne National Laboratory. If they...

The X Prize Foundation has inspired innovation through a series of contests to further space exploration, human genome study, and automotive energy efficiency. Now the group is turning its sites to oil cleanup, a need that has become all...