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100 MPG? Austin Inventor, Other Contestants Get Their Motors Runnin’
The X Prize Foundation, which sponsored the $10-million contest to build the world’s first private manned spacecraft, just announced the entrants in a competition to build a 100 MPG car or its electric equivalent.
Among the 30+ entrants is Austin inventor Jerry Roane, who claims his tubular TriTrack electric vehicle can do that easily.
Roane has been trying to convince the Texas Department of Transportation, the city of Austin and just about anybody else who’ll listen to take a look at his vehicle ever since he started working on it back during the 1970s oil crisis. The X Prize contest, he said in an brief interview, is a high point that he thinks he can win.
Roane will face some tough competition during the contest, which will run through 2010. Other entrants announced Wednesday include university researchers and private groups from Athens, Georgia to Munich, Germany.
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