complicated process, according to Reichenbach. Each car was required to run a “combined performance and efficiency challenge” at the speedway Tuesday. The outcome is intended to help the judges select a winner if the technical validation process produces a tie. The $10 million prize purse will be presented at an award ceremony on September 16, in Washington, D.C.
The finalists identified by the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize are:
Mainstream Class (Two vehicles, one team)
—Edison2, Very Light Car #97 (Charlottesville, VA), Internal Combustion Engine
—Edison2, Very Light Car #98 (Charlottesville, VA), Internal Combustion Engine
Alternative Class – Tandem (Two vehicles, one team)
—X-Tracer, E-Tracer #72 (Switzerland), Battery Electric
—X-Tracer, E-Tracer #79 (Switzerland), Battery Electric
Alternative Class – Side-by-Side (Five vehicles, five teams)
—Aptera, Aptera 2e (San Diego, CA), Battery Electric
—Li-ion Motors, Wave II (North Carolina), Battery Electric
—RaceAbout Association, RaceAbout (Finland), Battery Electric
—TW4XP, TW4XP (Germany), Battery Electric
—ZAP, Alias (Santa Rosa, CA), Battery Electric
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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