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Congratulations to Oliver and the Edison 2 team.

In case you didn’t already know, Oliver Kuttner, Team leader and owner of Edison2, has won the mainstream division of the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE. He did this by going farther than anyone has before in advancing the automobile in the areas of light weight, aerodynamics and engine efficiency, by going further than any other team in the mainstream class

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IMW Regretfully Declines the Zero-Emission Race Invitation

We were recently approached by Louis Palmer to represent North America in the Zero-Emissions Race around the world (http://www.zero-race.com/en/). It was an amazing honor to be considered to take part in this historic race of electric vehicles across 16 countries and my initial reaction was “YES! We’ll do it! We just have to figure out how.” Over several days, on

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It’s been 2 years and 10 months to the day since the members of Illuminati Motor Works threw their collective hats into the international competition known as The Progressive Automotive XPRIZE, a competition to build the worlds first 100 MPGe consumer viable vehicle. On Monday June 28th at approximately 6pm, our Battery Electric vehicle, Seven, experienced mechanical failures while trying

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Ordinary People?

I’ve read many articles and posts about team Illuminati, some good some bad, but one statement that seemed to be repeated on many occasions I’d like to take the opportunity to clarify here; and that statement is: “Ordinary people, doing extraordinary things” I disagree. There is not one person on this team that has not exceeded my highest expectations, and

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I Have No Idea What’s Going On.

I could say that the title about sums it up, but then BITW would win our bet. It doesn’t matter that it’s only an empty package of grapefruit rinds on the line….it’s my empty package of grapefruit rinds and I’m not giving them up without a fight! Oh look, a squirrel. So we have new custom struts on the way,

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Happy Easter, from Team IMW

Our involvement in this competition has required we push beyond the boundaries of our comfort levels. We’ve learned a lot in the process and have grown as individuals while also growing closer as a team. While I knew that this would be a long, demanding endeavor, I don’t think I realized what a toll the long hours could have on

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By the Grace of… the State

It may seem a bit odd to title this blog as I have, however the title encompasses many things that have come together just in time for us during our build so at different times it would be named slightly different: by the grace of Hyundai, by the grace of EV components, by the grace of Capitol City Tool and

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Letter to The Team

About a year ago I first heard from Sean, a US native who is currently in Japan. A couple weeks ago he made a donation to our team and wrote us a letter to catch up, which is included along with my response in this post. Dear IMW guys, Wow! Seven is looking good! I originally wrote to you nearly

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Why?

We’ve been asked on many occasions why take on this challenge? Why give up your free time, your lives to build a car? All the strain it puts on your family’s lives, friendships and bank account, why do this to yourselves just to build a car? Why? We believe there is a better way, a way that is economically viable

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