General Motors has released another conceptual take on the ENV, calling it the ENV 2.0. The first time we saw the EN-V was in 2010 when GM partnered with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Segway (ya, the scooter people) to release this idea. At that time, I compared these to Roomba vacuums. They had [...]
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GM Roomba WTF Redux
April 25th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Electrics, Featured 
Tags: chevrolet, China, general motors, Government of the People's Republic of China, Jiao, Roomba, SAIC, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation 
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Yet Again, Politics Get In the Way.. or do they?
April 12th, 2012 Aaron Turpen CODA Automotive has announced that they’re abandoning plans to build a lithium-ion battery factory in Columbus, Ohio. This because long delays have made it clear that the Department of Energy (DOE) will not likely act on their $500-million loan application for the project. The Columbus Dispatch blames the issue on the DOE, the administration, and [...]
Remember that Masterpiece of British Engineering? It Broke Again
March 12th, 2012 Aaron Turpen 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 [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Featured, Hybrids Tags: Boris Johnson, british engineering, Linux, London, Microsoft, New Bus for London, Olympic Games, Routemaster, Windows Me 1 Comment »
My Kiss of Death Still Works – More Doom for Fisker
March 9th, 2012 Aaron Turpen I have bad Karma (ha) when it comes to choosing favorites. Every electric car or EV I’ve chosen as a favorite turns out to be a pile of crap and soon goes out of business. I first noticed this in July of 2010. At that point, I’d already doomed the Aptera to a dismal fate [...]
Posted in Featured, Hybrids Tags: Aptera, Automotive industry, Consumer Reports, electric car, Electric vehicle, Fisker, fisker brick, Fisker Karma, Karma Comments Off
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 »
