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“I’M not proud of it, but I was after the money.” So confessed Oliver Kuttner of Edison2, based in Lynchburg, Virginia, which last week won the mainstream class of the Progressive Automotive X Prize – and bagged $5 million.
The competition’s overarching goal was to find a reasonably priced car with a fuel efficiency of at least 100 miles per US gallon equivalent (mpge) – or 100 kilometres per 2.35 litres. Edison2’s four-seater Very Light Car, which runs on an alcohol-petrol mix, just passed the test, managing 102.5 mpge.
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