Local team goes for Auto X Prize

An Ann Arbor team is making a try for the Automotive X Prize - a challenge that will award $10 million to the first team that can design a practical but fun 100mpg automobile.

Excerpt: "What we want to do is raise our visibility," said Donald J. Foley, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based effort. "We would like to get an OEM on board, to use our competition to showcase their new technologies. We hope our presence here will prompt them to take us a little more seriously."

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