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4/13/2010 12:00:00 PM
Before shipping the car to the "Shakedown" phase of the X-Prize competition, OptaMotive will hold a launch and naming event at 10 Am an Tuesday April 13th, at 3590 First Street in San Jose, CA. In attendance will be Yoriko Kishimoto the former Mayor of Palo Alto and current candidate for State Assembly, Jeff Janssen, advisor to San Jose's Mayor Chuck Reed, and Jerry Pohorsky, President of the Electric Auto Association of Silicon Valley.
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4/8/2009 12:00:00 PM
OptaMotive today announced its acceptance into the multimillion dollar Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, an international competition designed to inspire a new generation of viable, super fuel-efficient vehicles to offer more consumer choices.
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5/25/2010 12:00:00 PM
Demonstrating its commitment to enabling innovation in the automotive market, Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) today announced that it is a Gold Level sponsor of OptaMotive, a Silicon Valley startup that is building an electric vehicle (EV) to compete for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a $10 million competition to inspire a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles capable of achieving 100 MPGe (miles per gallon or its energy equivalent). With its electric vehicle, dubbed E.Rex, OptaMotive is striving to combine fun-to-drive performance (0-60 in less than 5 seconds) with energy efficiency of better than 150 MPGe.
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