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 [...]
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Volt vs Prius – A Tale of Government Handouts
February 15th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Featured 
Tags: chevrolet volt, general motors, Honda Insight, prius, toyota, Toyota Prius, Ultra Low Emission Vehicle, Volt 
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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 »
Japan Enters Ugliest EV Contest With Sim-Lei Design
January 22nd, 2012 Aaron Turpen If we’ve learned anything in the EV world, it’s that low drag coefficients usually mean really, really ugly design characteristics. For some reason, the idea of low drag (think Prius, one of the ugliest production cars in modern times) doesn’t jibe with great looks. On the other hand, both can be screwed up – witness [...]
Posted in Electrics, Featured Tags: electric car, ElectricVehicle, Keio University, prius, Sim-Lei, Toyota Prius Comments Off
Electric Muscle Car from EnviroTech
January 19th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Normally I spent my time here at EVmeme making fun of the goofy designs and (not so) “newsworthy” press releases that automakers and designers like to put out regarding their electric vehicles. Once in a while, though, something comes along that just needs to be shown off because it’s, well, cool. This is one of [...]
Kia Skips Detroit, Goes to Vegas Instead
January 10th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Where do you debut new electric car concepts in America? Not in Detroit at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), says Kia. Instead, you go to Vegas and showcase them at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES). If anything says that Koreans understand American thinking, this is it. Nobody in Detroit right now really expects [...]
Posted in Car Company, Electrics, Featured Tags: Consumer Electronic Show, Detroit, electric car, Hello Kitty, Kia, Kia Motors, Koreans, North American International Auto Show Comments Off
Top Story of 2011
December 31st, 2011 Aaron Turpen To send off 2011, I thought I would go back and look at the website’s logs for the past year and see what was the most popular story here in 2011. By far, it was Aptera’s closing up shop and the whole lead-up to that. The top story by readership count was Aptera Vaguely Announces [...]
