Gas Mileage Improvements: Can You Win 10 Million Dollars?
Improve my gas mileage! If you listen closely, you can hear that demand echo through time since the start of the industrial age. Nearly 100 years have gone by trying to figure out the best way to do it.
Many gas mileage devices have been developed over the last 75 years which have nearly doubled the mileage cars now get but progress has been slow. Without question there has been nearly no improvement in gas mileage in nearly 20 years.
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.
Up for the challenge? The competition races begin sometime in 2009 so if you think you can somehow “improve my gas mileage” it’s time to quit thinking and get building!
The questions are, do you think you have what it takes? What exactly are the rules to win the cash and what is the goals that need to be accomplished?
To start with, the goals are fairly simple. We need to get off our dependence on foriegn oil. We need cars that are totally efficient and we need them to be environmentally responsible. Bottom line? 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?
The benefits of this car need to be global in definition. So, on those terms, anyone from anywhere can compete in this race. It doesn’t matter where you reside, bring your brains!
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.
Are you thinking how life could change for you and the world in general as this technology reaches into other industries as well. Things would change on a global scale.
There is a ton of info on this and cars with the best gas mileage if you know where to start looking. Check it out and who knows! Maybe you will be the one to give us all a gas mileage improvement we have all been waiting for!