interview: driving towards the 100-mpg car - energy storage system price

Max glass kinthe Progressive Insurance Auto X award is a global competition product & USD;
10 million reward teams who can develop commercially viable cars that can travel 100 miles on a gallon of gas or drive the same energy in another form.
In any case, these vehicles must also emit less than 200 grams of carbon dioxide per mile.
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, this is about half of the typical passenger car.
The X Prize Foundation behind the competition aims to make the big-
Award for tough technical challenges with strong public appeal-a method designed to launch the first test of the Ansari X Awards for commercial space.
Other current prizes including a & dollar;
30-meter wallet showing the rover.
John Shore, senior director of the auto X Prize contest, American Navy research physicist and software entrepreneur, told Max glass kin about his hopes for the new contest and how the winners will decide.
How will you judge the success of the car X award?
The standard of our success will be how much investment we invest to replace, Super
Efficient vehicles and innovative drive trains, etc. , as well as the extent to which the market will change over the next five to ten years.
Are some of these X Prize cars coming into the market, are some technologies being acquired and put into use on other people's cars, and are some companies being acquired?
You quoted the first non-Orteig award.
Stopping transatlantic flights in 1927 was an impact that spurred the aviation industry.
But aviation was not mature at the time, and today's automotive industry is mature.
Instead of creating a new industry, we are changing the largest, most powerful and most historic industry on the planet.
If we succeed, a lot of money will be spent on new ways to try to meet our standards and present them to the world in our highly open event.
This is hard because of the tremendous momentum of the industry.
A & dollar does not attract teams;
10 million award.
Any team with a realistic chance of winning won't be attracted to & dollar;
If they are developing a new car, 100 million.
The value of the prize lies not in the wallet, but in propaganda.
Big manufacturers already have a lot of publicity and advertising budget.
Only one Tata Motors has expressed its intention to enter.
What attracts all the others into the competition?
We are not criticizing the existing industry.
We are concerned about the future.
Major manufacturers are an important part of the future as they are the only ones that can produce millions of cars a year.
We know these are risks.
Disgusted companies, for them, the competition is much more risky than the new company.
Why are they doing this?
Help develop market share for new products and make it clear to the public that they take seriously the way the changes claimed over the years.
I think the public is a bit cynical about the efforts made by big car companies for Green.
I think there is a fundamental change in the situation now, and it is clear that they have to do so to survive.
How hard is it to create a fair competitive environment for all different types of power, drive trains and energy storage systems?
This is very difficult.
We have chosen two meritorious deeds.
First, the mileage per gallon (mpg)equivalent.
So we ask, "how much energy does the vehicle consume in terms of the British heat unit?
How far is the "and" vehicle going?
"We just convert it to the amount of gallons of gasoline that contain the same energy as mpg and represent it as mpg.
If a car is traveling 200 miles, and the amount of fuel is the same as the energy of a gallon of gasoline, we would say it has 200-Mpg equivalent.
Competitors are looking for 100-
Mpg is equivalent because, in our opinion, it is a goal that can be achieved but difficult, and it is a lovely good integer.
The second advantage is about the greenhouse. gas emissions.
So what we use isto-wheels” life-
Cycle Assessment of emissions generated by the acquisition, production, distribution and use of fuel.
It is much more difficult to calculate in a fair and just manner, because it depends on many assumptions about fuel production, which have been greatly debated.
We have taken the model set up by the US Department of Energy to calculate the well.
Fuel emission wheels in racing vehicles.
The acceptable limit for the game is still in the final review, but for now we have reached the maximum of 200g per mile greenhouse
Gas emissions and the team will have to show evidence of numbers below this limit.
Has the criteria for screening contestants been determined? Our over-riding meta-
The principle is that the vehicle needs production-capable.
This means that if there is reasonable additional engineering and investment, the design can be put into production at a reasonable price, 10,000 vehicles or more per year, it seems legal to sell products in the United States that comply with U. S. safety and emissions regulations.
Participants who pass the test must provide detailed data submissions on vehicle design, safety, production plans and business plans.
Has competition attracted the interest of companies developing breakthrough technologies? The compressed-
The aerial car from the French MDI is roughly similar to the plug
In a hybrid-there is a liquid fuel engine on board and energy stored in compressed air.
Another team is promoting a hydraulic hybrid where energy is stored in compressed cylinders of gas and liquid and you get regenerative braking, recycling kinetic energy in regenerative braking and using it to increase
Even the bumper should be designed like this, and the energy will be recycled if you hit something.
I'm not sure if the insurance company will like this!
A British team is developing.
Energy storage in the flywheel.
Formula One has launched kinetic energy storage in 2009.
It is said that the X Prize is a "global" competition, is it promoted in the developing world?
To make things simple, we just need to focus on one market.
In fact, when we seek media partners and sponsors in the US to support our operations, it will be difficult if we are not US --focused.
That is to say, we are an international competition.
We have some plans for international promotion because one of the most recent partners of the X Prize Foundation is BT and they urge us to promote competition in Europe and elsewhere.
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