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Back at the shop, trying to work
We’re all back to our normal lives, or at least that’s what we are trying to tell ourselves. There is a lot of work that had to be postponed, and I’m way behind in my MonoTracer sales budget of 2010. … Continue reading
Posted in Peraves, PIAXP X PRIZE
Tagged EcoMobile, MIS, MonoTracer, PIAXP, Washington DC, X PRIZE, X-Tracer Team
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E-Tracers Successfully Complete X PRIZE Validation Stage!
I was picked up by Felix flying his A340-200 into Chicago and enjoyed a very smooth ride home to Switzerland today. I spent the last week in “Government Quarantine” at Argonne National Laboratory. The two E-Tracers passed all the foregoing … Continue reading
Posted in PIAXP X PRIZE
Tagged all electric MonoTracer MTE-150, Argonne National Laboratory, dyno, E-Tracer, Efficiency Tests, Electric Vehicle, EV, Geoffrey Amann, PIAXP, Validation Stage, X PRIZE, X-Tracer
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Popular Mechanics covers Radical X PRIZE Vehicles
As of today go out and buy your copy of Popular Mechanics at the newsstand! On the cover you can find the Li-Ion, the Canadian FVT three-wheeler, and the Edison2. We also received some coverage. Funny that they made bets on all teams for … Continue reading
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Validation Stage begins at Argonne National Laboratory
Having spent a whole week doing more or less nothing except sleeping and eating at Jim Lorimer’s house in Richmond, VA, I flew to Chicago on Sunday the 8th of August. Monday the 9th I found my way into ANL … Continue reading
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Tagged Argonne National Laboratory, E-Tracer, MIS, PIAXP, X PRIZE
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E-Tracers in the Media
Feet Forward advocate James F. Quinn wrote a nice article covering the E-Tracers for Cycle World magazine. The E-Tracer is the one vehicle which combines super energy efficiency and high speed peformance (have your cake and eat it too). Click … Continue reading
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Tagged Cycle World, E-Tracer, MPGe, PIAXP, X PRIZE
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X PRIZE vlog of Team X-Tracer
Vlogger Damien Somerset interviews Team X-Tracer’s Jim Lorimer (Peraves MonoTracer USA Sales Representative – 21st Century Motoring) on the E-Tracers progress in the PIAXP competition (July 25th, 2010). Team X-Tracer – Electric Tandem Vehicle
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Tagged 21st Century Motoring, E-Tracer, Jim Lorimer, MIS, PIAXP, X PRIZE, X-Tracer Team
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MonoTracer Hot Lap of Michigan International Speedway
While embedded with Team X-Tracer during the June Knockdown stage I shot this video from the backseat of Jim Lorimer‘s MonoTracer while doing a few hot laps of the Michigan International Speedway. This was my 2nd ever ride in a … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century Motoring, Jim Lorimer, MIS, MonoTracer, PIAXP, X PRIZE
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E-Tracers complete coastdown testing at Chrysler’s Chelsea Proving Grounds
The last three days of the finals of the PIAXP took place at the Chrysler Proving Grounds in Chelsea, MI and represented the first part of the validation phase. The results of the coastdown runs are the basis for the load-settings … Continue reading
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Tagged Argonne National Laboratory, Chelsea, Chrysler proving grounds, coastdown, PIAXP, X PRIZE
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Team X-Tracer celebrates and Prep for Coastdown
The X-Tracer team had a mini celebration and BBQ at their motel on Saturday with some X PRIZE media staff after it was clear the E-Tracers were the only vehicles left in the Alternative Tandem division. You can read about … Continue reading
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Monday’s X PRIZE Dynamic Testing
Monday was Dynamic Testing Day and we smoothly executed the 0-60 mph acceleration and 60-0 emergency braking tests as well as the 45 mph double lane change tests. Felix in E-Tracer #72 needed two attemps on the braking because he … Continue reading
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