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Showing posts with label innovators. Show all posts
Showing posts with label innovators. Show all posts

Feb 9, 2010

Detroit reaches out to auto innovators

By Jorn Madslien
Business reporter, BBC News

X-Prize competition vehicle
The aim of the prize is to come up with a vehicle that does 100mpg
With the Detroit auto show suffering from a drought of groundbreaking model launches by the city's incumbent carmakers, the focus has shifted towards an alternative motoring future based on innovation and inventions.
This year, Michigan State will host a series of competitions that offer a $10m (£6m) prize to the inventors of the world's most fuel-efficient cars.
Surprisingly, perhaps, the competition, which is run in stages, is not pitting major automotive groups up against each other.
Rather, the 41 teams teams that have entered 51 vehicles in the competition are mostly drawn from science and technology communities rather than from traditional automotive circles.

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