The revised Competition Guidelines for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE competition were released over the week-end, coinciding with our appearance at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. You can download a copy by visiting the Guidelines page on our website.
This document weighs in at almost 70 pages, so there is a lot to consume. For those familiar with the previous Draft Guidelines, check out page 5 of the current version to find out what's new. In the area of "most requested", we have removed the top speed requirement, allowed tandem seating in the Alternative Class, reduced acceleration requirements, reduced back seat requirements in the Mainstream Class, and removed the requirement for an eco-feedback indicator.
It took longer than we anticipated to get this full update out, but we found that with every new interim version came new questions and new challenges. We could not have developed these guidelines without the help of hundreds of individuals, organizations, companies and government agencies (especially the U.S. Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Transportation), and the general public (we have read and considered well over 2,000 comments).
To everyone involved: The PIAXP team is immensely grateful for your essential and generous assistance. A special thanks to our own John Shore and Bob Larsen for their tireless efforts at endlessly tinkering under the hood until they got the Guidelines to this point.
Feel free to drop us a line after you have read the Guidelines, or visit us at NAIAS in Michigan Hall through Tuesday. You can even see a vehicle from Letter of Intent Contender HP2G, and testdrive a vehicle from Registered Team Myers Motors while you're there.
Thank you very much for this usefull post. Even I was not familiar with the previous draft, i am fully satisfied by all the information. Looking forward for more posts like this one :)
Posted by: Floyd | June 05, 2009 at 10:38 AM