X-Tracer: A ride through the Sierra Nevada

Roger Weichert of Mediafusion GmbH, Neuheim Switzerland made this fabulous HD movie in early November 2010 when Roger Riedener drove the X PRIZE winning all electric X-Tracer to the 2010 SEMA Show in Las Vegas from Los Angeles. Jim Lorimer accompanied in the White MonoTracer. The running gag is that they paid the Venice beach musician $5 to record his song, and the E-Tracer used the equivalent of $5 of electricity for the 625 mile roundtrip through the desert.
http://peraves.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/x-tracer-a-ride-through-the-sierra-ne...

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Autos & Vehicles

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• X-Tracer
• E-Tracer
• Las Vegas
• Sierra Nevada
• MonoTracer
• SEMA Show
• X PRIZE
• Mediafusion

[crazyallenkids]

it's TRON

[stefspec]

Audi actually borrowed the "side blades" design element of the MonoTracer for their R8 as the MonoTracer designer Tobias Wülser was working at Audi at the time and his friend was designing the R8 and they needed something to break up the length of the car.

[intavent]

these things are amazing!! i'd love a 1 seater version with custom body styling and extra phat wheels!

[hipstarchild]

Cool guitarman

[lmogden1]

great video

[HonanOBrien]

shit. and people wonder why there are always 'UFO's" in this world. its not a ufo its a x-tracer or some other progressive shit!

[rockerojuan]

Good rain cover

[Zanthous83]

$83,000...WORTH IT!



[JLMoriart]

Wannnnnnt

[stefspec]

By traveling slower (25-70mph max) during the testing at MIS the X-Tracer was always riding on the stickiest portion of multi-compound motorcycle tires instead of the lower rolling resistance (longer wear) center part of the tire tread. Factor in frequent full stop requirements, riding on the stickiest part of the tread, and the 700watts of transmission drag it had prior to proper alignment, you can see where the 205MPGe number came from. In real world freeway driving you always get 300+MPGe.

[stefspec]

MTE7009 regularly returned better than 300MPGe during every 150-250mi SoCal roundtrip. I even achieved 380MPGe at 70mph driving to Santa Monica.  Remember, X PRIZE measured their MPGe having the vehicle stop 6 times every 2 miles on their oval banked track where the maximum allowed speed limit was 70mph. The X-Tracer (MTE7009) would have to do 120mph to be perpendicular to the track surface (20deg banks at the end ovals).

[stefspec]

@m1aws Sorry to disappoint...but the official X PRIZE MPGe for MTE7009 was 205. BUT...X PRIZE rules prohibited any repairs to the competition vehicles which had to survive the 6 months of testing at Michigan International Speedway as they arrived on day 1. MTE7009 never had a chance to get its prototype single fixed gear transfer case aligned and thus WON the X PRIZE with 700watts of transmission drag. I personally re-aligned that transmission once it shipped to California.