The Cornell Auto X-Prize Team is an engineering project group whose goal is to compete in and win the Automotive X-Prize Competition. We are also striving to help develop a new form of automobile that will reduce global non-renewable power consumption and harmful emissions.
5/3/2008 -
The Cornell Foray is Tested in the 2008 Green Grand Prix
The Cornell Foray was driven for a distance of over 60 miles today in the Green Grand Prix, held in Watkin's Glen, NY. Despite the tight deadlines and long hours that the team faced in preparing it to effectively run on both gasoline and electric power, the car performed admirably and exceeded all of our expectations. We are currently gearing up to take the Foray into the next stage of its development, and we invite you to keep checking our regular Popular Mechanics-sponsored blog articles for updates on our progress!
Photos of our participation at the Green Grand Prix are now available in the photo gallery!
4/25/2008 -
"Team Competes to Build Most Fuel-Efficient Car" - Cornell Daily Sun
"While most students are complaining about rising gas prices, others are working to compete for the Automotive X-Prize, a competition challenging participants to create a car that is both more financially sound and fuel-efficient than any other vehicle on the market..."
Read the full article here.
4/17/2008 -
Join the Team!
We are currently looking for students from any academic discipline to join our team! If you have a general interest in cars or how cars are designed and marketed on the cutting edge of current technology, please download and fill out an application here.
4/11/2008 -
"Young Entrepreneurs Get Lesson in Creative Thinking" - The Ithaca Journal
"...Terence Davidovits, a graduate engineering student and a founding member of the Cornell Automotive X-Prize team, is leading a group of 70 students hoping to win a $10 million prize for creating, from scratch, an automobile that can be commercially viable and still get 100 miles to the gallon..."
Read the full article here.
