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An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people’s lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of car In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like. Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond—into a world in which destiny hangs on a low drag coefficient and a lug nut can be a beautiful talisman.
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I'm a 39-year-old author and reporter who covers technology, sports, and culture. My latest book is "The Woman Who Smashed Codes," about an American puzzle-solving heroine of the world wars. In 2014-15 I was a Knight-Wallace Fellow in journalism at the University of Michigan, and now I live near Philadelphia with my wife and daughter.
