This is a prize to show the public that you can have a car that is beautiful, affordable, fast, safe and, ‘Oh by the way — it can get over 100 mpg or the gas equivalent.’ And why would you want anything else?
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Peter Diamandis, CEO of the X Prize Foundation.

If you’re NPR junkies like we are, this morning you probably heard about the winners of the Automotive X Prize who will recieve half of the $10 million prize for designing the best super-fuel-efficient vehicle with mainstream potential. 

Cool, right? So check out who we’ve got coming to PopTech this year: Both Erika Wagner, head of the XPrize Laboratory at MIT (who we interviewed this spring) AND Simon Hauger, a science teacher at West Philadelphia High who works with a team of students and teachers building amazing and innovative vehicles for competition in the Automotive X Prize. 

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