We have engineers in our team who had design a spacecraft that flew to Pluto, a ground vehicle that can survive 75g shocks and EMPs from nuclear blasts, and aircraft that flys at Mach 3. I have no doubt in my mind that we could beat the mainstream automakers.

The collective know-how is well beyond what a traditional car company would have.

In a lot of ways, the engineering part is easy. It’s how we can bring the finish product to the market and to understand the market in the first place that is hard.

This is particularly challenging for an open architecture hardware.

I think we are close to a solution here by defining the licensing structure that encourage private investments while maintaining full control of the organization’s charter.

I do not expect the big 3 to compete in the X Prize contest. The biggest reason being, why would you shoot yourself in the foot by telling your customers that you have a 100MPG car when you are still happily selling a 35MPG hybrid? US automakers have invested billions of dollars in their current fleet hybrids and they will NOT let that go until they make the money back.

Very soon, you will find out that those 35MPG hybrids are going to the next problem.

I appreciate your support and we are open to any suggestions.