Back when it debuted in December, the new Routemaster bus, designed completely in the United Kingdom and touted as a “masterpiece of British engineering“, broke down on its maiden voyage because those Brit engineers forgot to put fuel in it. Now, just a couple of months after its debut, the bus is in the news [...]
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Remember that Masterpiece of British Engineering? It Broke Again
March 12th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Featured, Hybrids 
Tags: Boris Johnson, british engineering, Linux, London, Microsoft, New Bus for London, Olympic Games, Routemaster, Windows Me 
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Volt vs Prius – A Tale of Government Handouts
February 15th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Today on TorqueNews, I wrote an article debunking the lame comparison people like to make between electric vehicles and personal computers. Basically, the comparison is useless for one big reason: the PC didn’t get piles of government money to promote its development, it depended almost entirely on market forces and real-world needs. But wait? Does [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Featured Tags: chevrolet volt, general motors, Honda Insight, prius, toyota, Toyota Prius, Ultra Low Emission Vehicle, Volt 2 Comments »
Think Goes Bust, More Government Money Wasted
February 8th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Indiana bet big on becoming the mecca of electric vehicle production in the U.S. The state and several counties and cities within it spent millions in incentives to get electric car makers, manufacturers, etc. into the state. One of those was Think, a Norwegian company with a long, rocky history of financial woes, that hoped [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Featured Tags: $73 million, City car, electric car, Electric vehicle, Elkhart, Indiana, Indiana Elkhart, joe biden, norwegian, think city 1 Comment »
Masterpiece of British Engineering Breaks Down On Its Debut
December 22nd, 2011 Aaron Turpen So.. what do you get when you have a British politician flatulating about how the newest, greatest (most expensive) hybrid bus they just bought is a “masterpiece of British engineering?” Why, you end up with a breakdown on the side of the road and a tow truck on the bus’ debut, of course. It’s pure [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Electrics, Featured Tags: Boris Johnson, Bus, Double-decker bus, hybrid bus, London, Northern Ireland, Routemaster, Trafalgar Square, Wrightbus 1 Comment »I Was Arrested for a Law that Doesn’t Exist
September 11th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Note: So… lemme get this straight.. there’s no law against his using his electric car for a FREE shuttle/taxi and no permit required, but they arrest and fine him for not having one anyway? How does that work? by Kris Bailey, CopBlock Here is the story about my arrest August 26th, and the reasons for [...]
Why CAFE Standards Don’t Mean Anything
August 25th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Back at the end of July, a lot of hubub in the automotive press said that President Obama was pushing for new, stricter, more environmentally-friendly fuel standards for the Environmental Pontification Agency’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE). These will be an extension of the standards set earlier this year that are effective through to 2016. [...]
