People are curious just how and why Rally Green came into being. I ask myself the same question every now and then, but as show time approaches it's feeling very real. Jack, Harry, Jay, and I were all early entrants in the X Prize but for one reason or another dropped out or were eliminated. One of the X Prize foundation's original plans was to have a multi city stage event to grade the cars in real world situations. We looked forward to that scenario as a great way to get the message to the streets, as it were. Now, it's being held on a race track. The final event, to declare the winner, is actually behind closed doors in August in Michigan. That was the event that I had originally planned to start Rally Green from, hoping to get many other contenders to come. We'd have our own "regular guy's X prize" by taking the cars to the public on a cross country tour. But they wouldn't let even us come watch, so when Bob Colbert called from Knoxville asking if we could make his town a stop, I though it made the most sense to just start from there. George Packer with the eVaro is still in the running for the X Prize, and we are rooting for him to win, but they had mechanical troubles in the last judging event in early May and are working hard to correct the problems in time for the next round in June or July. Whether they're successful or not impacts if they'll make it to our event. Oh, the drama!